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...writing to point out the amusing irony I discovered in Raymond Liu's editorial, "Info-Vasion" (March 21, 1994). Liu decries the "hype" that he believes characterizes the advent of new technologies, asserting that it "should not be...swallowed without thought." Yet lack of thought pervades his editorial. Liu wants us to wait until we have complete information about a plan before endorsing it; would that he had tried to gather more complete information before blindly flailing at systems like Clipper...
Feeling guilty about the Czechoslovaks, the British allowed Benes to form a wartime exile government in London. Meanwhile, though they had offered no resistance at the time of the German in vasion, the Czechoslovaks waged an underground war against the occupiers. In one of their retaliation moves, the Germans wiped out the entire village of Lidice. After Germany's defeat, Benes took his regime to Prague and started anew. He faced tremendous obstacles. At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill acceded to Stalin's demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after...
Suddenly Indonesia's delegate rose and left for home. It was just part of the dis rupting strategy of Indonesia's President Sukarno, whose military patrols soon be gan prowling New Guinea's coastline again. As for calling off the threat of in vasion, Sukarno chuckled, "Truly, I do not want to stop it, for it is a rolling snowball that will run down everything...
Great Britain's nine "national" dailies-are all published in London, all (except the Times) sell for a penny. Before the war, they used to run from 16 to 20 pages a day. Two months ago, when the Nazi in vasion of Norway pinched off Britain's chief supply of newsprint (TIME, April 29), they dropped to ten pages, then to eight...
Sanford, pitching well for the Quakers save for a little wildness, surpassed his previous showing in the game won by Pennsylvania on their in- vasion of Soldiers Field. He allowed four hits in all, and until a slip in the eighth inning threatened a shutout. After collecting a four run lead for Sanford the Penn team continued to offer fine support until the next to the last inning when Harvard pushed over its only...
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