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After checking into the Cuban-built Thang Loi (Victory) Hotel, the Americans were driven to a French colonial vil la for talks with their Vietnamese hosts. "Let me introduce Lieut. Colonel John Per," Armitage said, turning to a member of his delegation. "He was a guest of yours before for six years, but he stayed in a different hotel from the Thang Loi." Per was shot down over Thai Nguyen, 40 miles north of Hanoi...
...less an authority than President Leonid Brezhnev has conceded that life for the Soviet consumer is not easy. But just how tough can it be? The Moscow weekly, Literary Gazette, dispatched Correspondent Vil Dorofeyev to Krasnodar, a typical provincial city 735 miles south of Moscow, to find out. Dorofeyev was instructed to take only the clothes on his back and a pad and pencil, and to buy everything else that he needed on the spot. The seemingly simple assignment turned into a soap opera, Soviet-style...
...down on the farm where he milked 20 cows every morning and coped with lost sheep and a smelly goat. Then he switched to his favorite sermon text, John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (in Hungarian: "Ugy szerette, Isten a világot, hogy egy szülött Fiát adta oda"). When Graham concluded by asking the Hungarians to signal their rededication to Jesus Christ, thousands of arms were raised in response...
They were shipped to indoctrination centers in Germany, then sent for adoption to "racially valid and ideologically trustworthy" German families. More than 200,000 children were taken from their families in Poland alone. In the in famous Nazi massacre in the Czech vil lage of Lidice, the Germans first examined the community's 90 children. They saved eight for Himmler's program and gassed the rest...
...more recent short stories included here that one finds the authentic Garcia Marquez in the humor, the color and detail, the easy access to magic balanced by harder ironies. In The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, ostensibly written for children, the inhabitants of a fishing vil lage discover a magnificent corpse on the beach, and in marveling at its splendor come to recognize the meanness of their own lives. In another story, a flea-bitten old angel makes a mysterious appearance...