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...looked more like the return of a victorious national hero than the arrival of a troubled neighbor. Standing on a red carpet at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport last week, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev kissed the uniformed visitor on each cheek as gaily dressed schoolchildren offered bouquets of roses and carnations. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's martial-law leader, then shook hands with the phalanx of Politburo members who had waited on the tarmac to greet...
...Then there is the "I don't recall," a sort of buck pass to one's memory. Blaming the state is a standby too, as are blaming modernity, one's mother, the computer and the post office. "The dog ate my homework" is a favorite with schoolchildren. And a new plane of inventiveness was reached recently when a Virginia man killed his mother-in-law in the garage with a hatchet and explained that he mistook her for a raccoon...
...awoke to news of a staggering event: Palestinian guerrillas had murdered three members of one family in the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot, seized the school and taken four teachers and more than 90 schoolchildren hostage while demanding the release of 20 fedayeen in Israeli prisons...
...that day, Israeli commandos stormed the schoolhouse at Ma'alot and killed the three terrorists. But 16 schoolchildren died and 68 were wounded?all by Palestinian hand grenades...
...story of how the Indian maiden Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith from execution by her tribe is taught to nearly all American schoolchildren. Most of them grow up thinking they know better, just as they stop believing in Santa Claus and George Washington's cherry tree. Because the only source for this episode is Smith's journal, the skepticism seems justified, especially since the captain elsewhere describes a suspiciously similar rescue by another young woman in Central Europe. But historians have found that where it is possible to double-check Smith's facts, the old adventurer comes...