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...spite of what seemed to be inevitable doom, in spite of hundreds of thousands of fleeing party apparatchiks, Stalin remained in Moscow. In a speech on Nov. 6, 1941, the eve of the 24th anniversary of the Bolshevik takeover, he cast the enemy as beasts. "It is these people without honor or conscience, these people with the morality of animals, who have the effrontery to call for the extermination of the great Russian nation." Patriotic Russians would never let that happen. "No mercy for the German invaders," he said. In Red Square the next day, he again sought to rein...
...July 1942 the Germans had pushed the British out of Libya. All that stood between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted him to counterattack by September 1942. Montgomery chose to wait until Oct. 23. By that time the Eighth Army outnumbered Axis...
...more the fact that I had made a distinction in my life between a public person with many duties and having a very private life, and I'd decided to maintain my private life. Even now, in spite of all this, I do not relish discussing my sexuality in the newspapers," says Gomes. "There's a big badge on me now that says 'homosexual,' and I'm not ashamed of that, but I'm a great deal more than that...
...annual meeting of the Coalition for Choice here Tuesday, about 30 people representing several interest groups met to discuss their strategy to further the prochoice movement over the next year in spite of the setback...
...would urge the members of the Harvard community to examine the object of derision for themselves, and make up their monds on their own. Personally. I can attest to the magazine's general integrity and, in fact, to its tolerance, in spite of my long-standing lack of respect for it and its liberal counterparts. Thomas Lembong...