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Died. Sir John Masterman, 86, former vice chancellor of Oxford University who directed British-and later Allied-counterintelligence units during World War II; in Oxford. In his book The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masterman recounted how the Twenty Committee (from the Roman numeral XX, symbolizing double-cross) effectively "ran and controlled the German espionage system" by feeding agents carefully planned false information, e.g., that the 1944 Allied invasion would take place in Calais, not Normandy. After the war, Masterman returned to Oxford and until his retirement in 1961 served as provost of Worcester College...
There has been other evidence that the radical-moderate feud has heated up. Over the past two weeks, posters have appeared on walls within view of the municipal office building accusing "Official XX" of "keeping the lid" on the anti-Confucius campaign. The target is believed to be Peking's top official, Wu Teh, a moderate and a supporter of Premier Chou Enlai. However, the moderates struck back with posters defending "Official XX." They denounced the authors of the earlier posters as "bad elements" who "indulge in fabrication, lies and calumny...
SEPT. 5, 1972. Black September terrorists kill eleven Israeli athletes at Munich XX Olympiad...
...learned the biggest lesson of my life in Munich," declared Australian Swimmer Shane Gould earnestly. "I learned how to lose." Could this be the same 15-year-old girl who won three gold medals, one silver and one bronze at the XX Olympiad-more than anyone else except U.S. Swimmer Mark Spitz? The very same, but last July Shane had carefully predicted her times for all five events, written "Here's hoping" underneath and sealed the estimates in an envelope. Back home in Sydney she opened it, found that she had bettered only one of her predictions, failed...
These ills did not originate with the XX Olympiad. Since the Games were revived in 1896, they have too often been used for purposes that stray far from their professed ideal. Adolf Hitler made the 1936 Berlin Games a platform for virulent Nazi propaganda; in 1952 the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. began turning the Olympics into a cold war theater. Since then even the referees, who can do a lot of subjective mischief in judgment events like boxing, have often been chosen more for their ideological loyalty than for their skill. As proved by Munich 1972, the Games have become...