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Commander Scott Waddle was in his private hell. His submarine, the U.S.S. Greeneville, had sunk a Japanese fishing vessel off Hawaii, killing nine people. His career in the Navy was over. He was potentially facing a court-martial. His lawyer had told him to remain silent. And still Waddle decided to stand up last week and testify at the Navy's court of inquiry into the accident. "This court needs to hear from me. It is the right thing to do," said Waddle...
...trigger. Three days after the DC-4 downing, U.S. Skyraiders patrolling near Hainan shot out of the sky two LA-7s that showed signs of hostile behavior. Radio Beijing announced that two American fighters had made piratical attacks on two Polish merchant ships and one Chinese escort vessel, but failed to mention...
...Rather, there's something about the enormity of the tragedy, and its still inexhaustible mystery, that maintains a pull on artists and audiences. The first generation of Holocaust dramas were intent mainly on presenting the awful crimes to us. As years have gone on, the Holocaust has become a vessel for all sorts of more complex moral inquiries. "In the generation that immediately followed the war, the story was told in a rather less nuanced manner. There was black and white, good and evil," says Barry Edelstein, artistic director of CSC (which, along with the Klemperer play, also just staged...
Furthermore, it wasn't atherosclerosis or a heart attack that sent Cheney to the hospital. Rather, scar tissue had formed around the wire-mesh stent that was implanted last November to open a blocked coronary artery. This had led to a renarrowing, or restenosis, of the vessel. (Restenosis occurs in 20% of such cases.) Although one study suggests that "burnout" can trigger restenosis, the evidence is hardly conclusive and in any case doesn't apply to Cheney, who obviously relishes his job. "If you have a job you love, then you're lucky," says Dr. Alan Wasserman, chief of medicine...
Surely the most disturbing point was the Americans' labeling the Ehime Maru "a fishing vessel" instead of a high school training boat. If a Japanese warship had sunk an American ship with high school students onboard, causing the death of several of them, what would the American public have said? DAVID WOOD Fukuoka, Japan...