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...unmarked graves last October made that silence especially difficult. Pressure also mounted from civilian politicians, along with the resolute "Mothers of Plaza de Mayo," who for years have demonstrated every Thursday in Buenos Aires' central square, demanding to know the fate of their missing children and other kin...
Before he got into trouble in Argentina. Timerman was ostensibly a journalist Judging by The Longest War, his current profession is conscience mercenary. That is, if a prospect of profit exists. Timerman will suffer, feel awful and decry all injustice. With sweeping flourishes. Timerman is a kin of prose Whitman who sympathizes with almost everything, "weeping dolefully" for the events in Lebanon and the decline of moral Israel. He does this by pretending he is an insider, a native with a bona fide claim to all the world's ills. He declares without hesitation that since his first reading...
...Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more powerful. There was now a final tally; most of the 230 readers had friends or kin among the dead, and a complicated sadness had replaced the agitprop bitterness of November 1969. David DeChant, 35, a former Marine Corps sergeant who spent 31 months in Viet Nam, started with the A's: "David Aasen, Jose Abara, Richard Abbate . . ." The spare eulogy took the better part of three days...
Most who visited the quasi-underground memorial last week had simpler, visceral reactions. Said former Marine David Zien of Medford, Wis.: "My chest was hollow, and I was a bit limp. It just overwhelms you." Friends and kin looked for names, aided by roving guides carrying alphabetized directories. Minera Peyton said she had come from Elsah, Ill. to "honor my son," dead for twelve years She visited National Cathedral on Friday at 3 a.m. to hear William Peyton's name and she liked the severe granite memorial. "It's not ostentatious," she said. Nearly everyone ran their hands...
...robot spacecraft, thus leaving the field to the Soviets, Western Europeans and Japanese. But NASA plans a relatively cheap ($2 million) alternative: diverting an unmanned ship already in orbit for an inspection of a comet called Giacobini-Zinner, which will appear a few months ahead of its famous kin...