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Hitler by now lived and worked entirely underground, in a hidden mausoleum known as the Führerbunker. Dug in next to the Reich Chancellery in central Berlin, the bunker was nearly 60 ft. below street level; its earth-covered roof was 16 ft. thick (but leaky). It had 30 rooms, their concrete walls painted battleship gray. A staff of about 500 came and went. Here the Führer ate, slept, gave orders, shouted, raged. "Hitler never saw another sunrise or sunset after January," said an aide...
During a lull in the Soviet shelling, the two bodies were carried upstairs to the Chancellery garden, doused with gasoline and set afire. Even before the flames died down, renewed shelling drove the survivors underground again. Goebbels and Nazi Party Secretary Martin Bormann decided to try offering the Soviets a deal. On May 1 they sent a general to Soviet headquarters to propose a surrender of Berlin in exchange for their own safety in leaving the city. During the long interval before the general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered...
...terrorist acts by Arabs. But last week, when a three-judge panel found the 15 guilty on charges ranging from murder and attempted murder to conspiracy and possession of arms, their certainty gave way to shock and anger. Three of the defendants, including Menachem Livni, leader of the Jewish underground terrorist organization to which most of the defendants belonged, were convicted of murdering three Arab students at the Islamic College in Hebron in 1983. They face mandatory life imprisonment. The other twelve defendants were convicted of crimes committed between 1980 and 1984, and could receive prison terms...
...produced by the radioactive decay of radium, which in turn is a product of the radioactive breakdown of uranium. The gas has long been recognized as a health threat to uranium miners, who suffer abnormally high rates of lung cancer. But as a gas, radon can flow for miles underground, often rising to the surface through faults and porous rock far from any source of uranium. In fact, the Watras house is located in a region called the Reading Prong, from which larger-than-normal quantities of radon rise. The region stretches from Reading, Pa., eastward across northern New Jersey...
...College students will never stop drinking, no matter how many acronyms are thrown in their way. Until the BPD takes a more pragmatic stance towards underage alcohol consumption, the correlated problems of binge drinking and raucous behavior will only worsen as students who wish to drink are pushed farther underground, out of the reach of the BPD and college health officials...