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Even Mercedes' German rivals, while eager to exploit the sales opportunity, are rooting for a modest recovery. "In the end it's also a German brand," says Ralph Weyler, the board member responsible for sales and marketing at Audi. "Generally, it prompts the discussion, Are the Japanese better than the Germans? We're all thrown into the same...
...although I would prefer a shade more restraint in the main characters, I have no such quarrel with the supporting performances. Between them Victoria Weyler, Ronald Witt, Bill Christian, Alzada Knickerbocker, and Belford Lawson take care of the other eighteen parts very nicely indeed. Each one of them does at least one really good role. And Mr. Johnson redeems himself as Warty Bliggans, the toad who believes that "the earth exists to grow toadstools for me to sit under...
...Ambassador to Cuba, visited Havana's Laurel Ditch, the Spanish execution ground, and wrote: "Clots of dark human blood, as we slipped on it, clung to our feet like glue. In the wall, a thousand ghastly bullet holes." Spain's efficient, Prussian-descended General Valeriano ("The Butcher") Weyler, the elegant Marquis of Tenerife, decreed that the noncombatants be rounded up into huge concentration camps. In Havana province alone, 50,000 prisoners starved to death. After the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana harbor, the U.S. outcry brought a declaration of war, sent the Marines and Teddy Roosevelt...
...which President McKinley was called "a pothouse politician, catering to the rabble," Rubens published the letter, forced de Lôme's resignation. Rubens thinks the Maine was blown up by the Spaniards, admits it was probably not "an official act," but suspects that the disgruntled Spanish General "Butcher" Weyler hoped it would happen...
...campaign for the rainy season: "I am going to make the Spanish columns move, move constantly; and I count upon my three important allies, June, July and August." The Spanish answer to guerrilla tactics, says Rubens, was atrocities, of which he presents some gruesome photographs in evidence. General Weyler won his nickname of "Butcher" by his order outlawing all Cubans found outside the Spanish lines, shooting them as rebels. Those within the lines (reconcentrados), says Rubens, were allowed to starve: "at least 200,000" died that...