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"Waiting for the Blowout-Hurricane Fidel" Tad Szulc, in The Washington Spectator (Oct. 1, 1993), London Terrace Station, P.O. Box 20065, New York,
N.Y. 10011.
After nearly 35 years in power and at age 66, Cuba's Fidel Castro is almost certainly nearing the end of his rule. The question is whether or not the transition from his "socialist" regime to whatever comes after it can be accomplished without civil war and massive bloodshed. Szulc, a former Nau York Timescorrespondent...
In the 20th century, German history has done its best to obscure German poetry. Murder makes better copy, and when foreign troops march into your country you are not in a mood to read their bards and classics, unless of course you work for intelligence. Nor does your interest get much of a boost from those troops' defeat. Nearly 50 years after World War II's carriage, we are still more familiar with the names of the Third Reich's leaders than with those of Else Lasker-Schuler, Gottfried Benn, Gunter Eich, Karl Krolov, Ingeborg Bachmann, or Peter Huchel. Apparently, the dust hasn't settled yet.
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