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...biography of Abraham Lincoln on the desk of Nigeria's 35-year-old military leader. Gowon had apparently read it carefully. He quoted Lincoln on the problem of "binding up the nation's wounds" and the need to ensure that "the dead shall not have died in vain." Throughout Nigeria's civil war, Gowon operated on the Lincolnesque proposition that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." In the process, he became quite a Lincoln scholar; he once remarked that he had got so that he could recognize the Grants and Shermans among his own commanders...
Douglas added, "We have searched the (Selective Service) act in vain for any clues that the Congress desired the act to have punitive sanctions apart from the criminal prosecutions specifically authorized...
Nearly 200 newsmen milled about the small town (pop. 1,500), searching, mostly in vain, for a breaking story. Those facing hourly deadlines often latched onto one of the many rumors swirling about the closed hearing or resorted to writing in trivial detail about the "picturesque" town and the quaint quirks of some of its citizens. The real news, of course, was concealed behind closed doors, although as the inquest week went on, some significant facts leaked...
Other scientists are skeptical. Several have tried in vain to duplicate the "distance effect." Last week the director of the time service division of the Naval Observatory, Dr. Gernot M.R. Winkler, voiced the strongest doubts yet. "We have 100% proof that the distance effect is all wrong," he said, "and a 95% chance that the sunrise-moonrise effect is spurious." Which still leaves the Sadeh-Au question: Why did the clock appear to slow down at sunrise...
...terrible urgency of the Bible, like a siege tower, straight up against contemporary walls. His Massacre, for instance, takes place in a Flemish village of his own day. Walloon redcoats butcher baby after baby on the shining snow. Mothers and fathers pray, scream, struggle and reach out in vain. Spain's notorious "Edict of Blood" is fulfilled before our eyes...