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...them under 18, file out of the tent to begin their morning exercises. By noon they have jogged six miles, practiced hand-to-hand combat and had a lesson in Armenian history. "We need our own army," says Razmik Vasilyan, commander of the Armenian National Army, a semi-underground military force that has grown to 10,000 men since it was founded nearly a year ago. "The Soviet army simply cannot guarantee the security of Armenia...
Jews who lived in Germany before the war form a minority of the 28,000 who make the Federal Republic their home. One of them is Alfred Moses, 70, a semi- retired West Berlin watchmaker who left Europe for Israel in late 1948 after living through the horror of the concentration camps of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Finding life in the Middle East intolerable, he and his wife Inge returned to Germany in 1954. In Berlin the couple's friends are all Christians. Says Inge: "We do not go to synagogue, and there are few Jews...
...Harvard Film Archive is in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, on Quincy Street. The Carpenter Center is a semi-spiral lump of concrete, and is one of the few North American examples of work by the renowned architect Le Corbusier. It's ugly, but people will still think you're uncultured if you criticize it, simply because it's famous...
Kovic wrote Born on the Fourth of July, a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences in Vietnam and of his return home. The book, later adapted as an award-winning movie, charts the change in Kovic's attitude toward American society and illustrates how a gung-ho patriot transforms himself into a passionate protester for peace...
...Andrew monitored Tony's blood pressure while he cradled a portable phone and asked a county trauma center for permission to bring in the case. He tried to insert an IV needle, but the boy, who spoke no English, cried and resisted. "No moveas," St. Andrew cajoled in semi-Spanish. An impatient nurse on the phone demanded a blood- pressure reading. Suddenly Tony stopped crying. St. Andrew shook him gently: "Antonio, Antonio!" The boy began to wail again. Everything was chaotically routine. Hospital tests eventually showed that Tony had neither head injuries nor broken bones...