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...THIS starts when Napoleon finds out that his temptress is part English and part Irish. The combination, he says, after having been thoroughly fooled, may be the only formula to defeat him on the battlefield--a foreboding of his defeat by the Irish-born General Wellington leading the English army at Waterloo...
What if? is history's forever teasing and unanswerable question. What if Marshal Ney's troops had not sat eating lunch before Waterloo while the Duke of Wellington retreated to safety? Etcetera. To all such historic posers must now be added questions raised by a retired British group captain named Frederick Winterbotham. What if a Pole working in a German factory had not defected to the Allies in 1938, bringing with him the first construction details of the Nazis' coding machine, called Enigma? And what if British cryptographers had not eventually cracked Enigma's supposedly unbreakable...
Died. Norman Eric Kirk, 51, thunder-voiced politician who ended the New Zealand Labor Party's twelve-year exile from power and became Prime Minister after a 1972 electoral sweep; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A onetime manual laborer...
CORRELLI BARNETT, British military historian: Greatness has nothing to do with morality. A leader gets people to follow him. Napoleon led the French to catastrophe, but they followed him almost to the end. Marlborough and Wellington had greatness. And Hitler, unfortunately. Al Capone was a leader in a primitive environment...
Peterson is now the manager of the fixed income department for Thorndike, Doran, Paine and Lewis, a subsidiary of Wellington Management Co., at which Cabot was a senior partner until April...