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Ultimately, Bettelheim had to return to Dachau. His taxi drove past the barracks that he had once inhabited. "For a moment," he writes, "I was tempted to ask the driver to stop and let me out, but children were playing in front of it, and I thought better of disturbing...
By Christmas Eve, most of Noriega's entourage had melted away. The dictator was exhausted by the chase and depressed by the defection of one of his top lieutenants, Luis del Cid, who surrendered to U.S. forces in the western province of Chiriqui rather than organize a resistance. Noriega, accompanied...
What the Supreme Court decides to do will be of more than passing interest to the 21 million American households that have cordless phones. The prevailing legal rationale holds that cordless users have no "reasonable expectation" of privacy because their phones -- unlike standard wire phones and sophisticated cellular devices -- transmit...
Others were chilled. In China the Rumanian revolution was read as a cautionary tale of what could have happened in Beijing last year had the army not crushed the pro-democracy movement -- and what might still come to pass. Communist Party officials in Beijing put out a directive telling their...
Yet even if the party is destined for the trash heap, not all its members -- 3.8 million before the revolution -- can be ruled out of public life, and some may in time prove their worth. In any case, practicality demands that the government retain at least part of the old...