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...Sept. 18, 1931, a Japanese army lieutenant meticulously wired 42 cubes of yellow blasting powder and buried the load in the earth 5 ft. from railroad tracks north of the Manchurian city of Mukden (now Shenyang). The explosives would throw a lot of dirt but cause little damage to the rail line. After all, the South Manchurian Railroad was Japanese-owned and linked the empire's economic outposts in predominantly Chinese Manchuria. All the army wanted was an "incident...
...escapism," he writes. "It suggests that they were avoiding the real world all the time they were in school." He also argues that college freshmen, rather than graduate students, warrant special attention: "If more of our academic resources were spent on freshmen and sophomores, advanced undergraduates and graduate students would be far more able to study on their...
That sentence, appearing in TIME magazine 50 years ago, reported the start of a cataclysm that would ultimately sweep across five continents and change the world forever...
...Klerk insisted that the country was on the "threshold of a new era" and announced he would meet on Aug. 28 with Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. Kaunda is expected to press De Klerk to negotiate with the outlawed African National Congress...
Officially recognizing that such nationalities issues are "acute," the Kremlin last week proposed a policy that would grant increased autonomy to all 15 republics and rewrite the 1922 treaty creating the Soviet Union and defining the rights and obligations of its republics. "Recent events," said the proposal, show "a need for radical transformations in the Soviet federation." Specifics are to be discussed at a special Central Committee plenum next month. It will be another risky venture for President Mikhail Gorbachev, aimed at resolving the nationalities problem without curtailing his reform program -- or his hold on power...