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...first is factual Mr. Kladko suggests that President Reagan and Helmut Kohl visit the city of Dresden as an alternative to the cemetery at Buburg. As I also have read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, including the chapter in which Kladko found the passage from David Irving's book on Dresden, I too know all about the horror of the Dresden fire-bombing. But as I read the book a little more carefully than Mr. Kladko apparently did. I noticed that in Chapter One Vonnegut describes the difficulties involved in visiting Dresden today, because it is in East Germany. Mr. Kladko...
...giant* seaplane China Clipper lumbered out of the waters of San Francisco Bay and headed west. The seven-day, four-stop voyage to Manila by the Pan American World Airways craft marked the first commercial flight across the Pacific and opened a romantic new chapter in aviation history. Romance went to the movies in the 1936 film China Clipper, starring Humphrey Bogart...
...began bouncing in March, Owners Douglas Ruhe and William Geissler agreed to surrender most of their shares to the company's creditors and employees. Even that drastic move was not enough. U.P.I.'s four directors voted unanimously last week to authorize Chairman Luis Nogales to file for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code...
...wire service's latest crisis came when Foothill Capital Corp., a Los Angeles-based finance company and U.P.I.'s principal lender, refused to advance the cash needed for last Friday's payroll. U.P.I. officials insisted that the Chapter 11 petition had been considered for "several months." Nonetheless, the wire service carried a story quoting unidentified sources who said that Foothill was unhappy with the Wire Service Guild's refusal to renegotiate a labor contract and make new wage concessions. One U.P.I. official said the California company was also upset to learn two weeks ago that U.P.I. had failed...
...reality. The men below them, from defense secretaries to platform commanders, had to provide Upstairs with what it wanted to hear. The trait of deceit and cover-up that publicly emerged with Johnson's "credibility gap" and continued through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate to its most recent chapter revealed in the CBS documentary "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception" was not the result of an imbedded American evil, but rather the outcome of bureaucratic values where pleasing the man upstairs is the highest calling...