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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...warned that if he signed a separate peace treaty with East Germany, the Western allies "will naturally not be able to reach Berlin by land, water or air," and if they try to use force for the purpose, "this force will be opposed by force from the other side, based on law and right...
...faded away. Pleading ill health, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, 79, resigned as head of state at the Supreme Soviet's closing session. Premier Khrushchev praised and decorated Stalin's old companion-in-arms, then kissed him on both cheeks. But the aged President had been on the wrong side of the 1957 leadership fight, and Khrushchev had not forgotten...
...killed him? Because he had become disillusioned with his onetime idol. Sentenced to 20 years, the prisoner clung stubbornly to his story, even though Mexican authorities were able to prove he was actually a Spaniard named Ramón Mercader, a convinced Communist who fought on the Loyalists' side in the Spanish Civil War, was later enrolled in the Soviet NKVD, and eventually reached Mexico on the passport of a Canadian who had been killed in Spain while fighting with the International Brigade...
...footprint, this enormous sinkhole in the desert west of Cairo begins with a heel 35 miles south of the Mediterranean shore and then runs southward into the desert for some 185 miles. Covered with rock salt and slimy quicksand, Qattara is as desolate and lifeless as anything this side of the moon. Only generals have ever placed any value on one of nature's worst mistakes. In World War II Montgomery bunched his forces at El Alamein in the neck of land between the Mediterranean and the nearly 1,000 ft. drop of the Depression, and thus kept Rommel...
...must have been laid down as deliberately as any modern Levittown. Each house has the same plan, with an outer vestibule for cattle, pigs, sheep, dogs, and a breed (now extinct) of small horses. Inside are the living quarters-a single, squarish room with a chimneyless fireplace at one side and a raised bed platform at the other...