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...Near Ain Alem, Reporter Karnow found a farm couple leaving, after having spent a night fighting off rebel attacks. He found other colons confused and bitter. They blamed Paris, Cairo, Moscow, Washington. But they dared work their fields only when covered by troops, and there were not enough troops...
...eyes the Western policy of building strength in concert, which had enabled West Germany to defy Soviet displeasure and declare its sovereignty, had been abandoned, and the pillar on which he had leaned for six years had given way. The sight of Eisenhower beaming at Bulganin, Macmillan crying "There ain't gonna be no war," the new atmosphere of relaxation, confused and bewildered him. His mission to Moscow, which followed soon after, virtually shattered him. He considered Russian leaders the personification of evil and detested this intimate contact with them. But he and his advisers returned from Moscow bitterly...
...Germans that reunification was a gift to be bestowed by one power-the Soviet Union-and on its conditions. The failure of positions of strength to win East Germany back led some Germans to ask why they should waste time, money and manpower in rearming. Why rearm if there "ain't gonna be no war"? Almost immediately there began a widespread search for ways to circumvent Germany's pledges to NATO...
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...texts ("All workbook stuff-read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about a topic, he was apt to get carried away. He assigned some strange themes (sample topic, taken from Green Pastures: "Even bein' God ain't no bed of roses"). He also read parts of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men "so that the kids could learn this lesson, that everybody in this world needs somebody else...