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...before the U.S. announced its support for Britain on April 30. While there were remarkably few reports of personal mistreatment of either Britons or Americans living in Argentina, the signs of ill feeling were unmistakable. The Argentine magazine Tal Cual lampooned British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a "pirate, witch and assassin." Radio stations were playing fewer English and American records. The Franco Inglesa, one of Buenos Aires' fashionable pharmacies, last week pointedly dropped the Inglesa. Fearing an increase of hostility, the U.S. embassy last week recommended that "nonessential" members of its 95-person staff and some dependents...
...Donald Barthelme, 51, Erica Jong, 40, E.L. Doctorow, 51, Calvin Trillin, 46, and Frances FitzGerald, 41. But perhaps the most impassioned protester was Actress Margaret Hamilton, 79, who in the 1939 film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz brought to life the character of the Wicked Witch of the West. Last week Hamilton did it again by reading from the original L. Frank Baum children's favorite, which was banned by the Detroit public school system in 1957 for its overly "negative" outlook. "Book censorship is like them taking a book out of my own home," huffed Hamilton...
...five-year economic joyride on the crest of rising worldwide petroleum prices has come to an end. Instead of enjoying swelling financial reserves and broadening prosperity for Mexico's 72 million citizens, the government of President José López Portillo finds itself confronting a witch's brew of staggering unemployment, rising inflation and pyramiding foreign debts...
...marked by parting gifts and deferential staff tributes. That was not the way things went when NBC News President William Small, 55, was forced to resign two weeks ago. Reporters at NBC's Washington bureau danced in the corridors when they heard the news, singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Someone ripped the name plates from the doors of NBC Correspondents Bernard and Marvin Kalb, who had followed longtime CBS News Executive Small to NBC in 1980. Meanwhile, at NBC headquarters in New York City, the news staff gleefully made up "an endangered species list" of CBS emigres...
...support this thesis, the authors adopt a casebook approach. They select 14 incidents from the U.S. past, ranging chronologically from the Jamestown colony to Watergate. They show how each subject makes different demands on the historian. The Salem witch trials of 1692, for example, call for close scrutiny of a single, tiny village, while the U.S. decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima demands a broad inquiry into the dynamics of overlapping committees and bureaucracies. Finally, Davidson and Lytle show how certain historians have faced and stared down these problems...