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Rome and Carthage in ancient times, Israel and the Arab countries in today's world???such are the parallels to the national enmity between India and Pakistan that come naturally to mind. Behind their hostility lies a legacy of Hindu-Moslem religious enmity that is as old as Islam (see box). There are many who believe that if India had held out a little longer for independence from Britain without partition, it would have had its way and today there would be one country on the subcontinent, not two. But as Nehru confessed much later, "The truth is that...
...that man for man and dollar for dollar, the Israelis have the best intelligence service in the world???possibly because of their sense of community and beleaguerment. Among the Israeli achievements: learning the substance of Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 destalinization speech at the 20th Soviet...
Unfamiliarity delighted him. In 1520, when he was in Brussels, Dürer was shown a roomful of loot from the New World???"a sun of gold fully 6 ft. broad, and a moon of silver the same size . . . strange clothing, bedspreads and all kinds of wonderful objects of various sizes, much more beautiful to behold than prodigies. All the days of my life I have seen nothing that gladdened my heart so much as these things, for I saw among them wonderful works of art, and I marveled at the subtle Ingenia of men in foreign lands." Very...
...vast majority of the 6,000 delegates who will file into the Palace of Congresses next week will have no say about how the problem will be resolved. But they will be given some clues?as will the rest of the world???about what the men in power may do. The Soviet delegates do not debate issues. They are elected to their posts only after careful screening and final Politburo assent. When a resolution is presented, they automatically approve it, for they know that the Politburo has already accepted it. Yet they perform a significant if largely ceremonial function...
...miles and gone into a wide-ranging earth orbit, stranding the astronauts. But the lunar module engine performed reliably. With only a 30.7-second burn, it put Apollo 13 on a course that would carry it toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Houston?and the world???breathed easier, but Mission Control knew that the burn was only a stopgap measure. The calculated splashdown area was not only far away from any U.S. recovery ships, but it would also take 74 hours to reach?perhaps longer than the LM's dwindling supply of water, oxygen and electricity would last...