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"It was weird," wrote George H.W. Bush in his diary entry for August 9, 1972, the day Richard Nixon became the first president in American history ever to resign the office. One question seemed to keep asking itself: "What kind of man is this really"?
Before he actually went there, Pfc. Harold Porter read about Germany in the socialist Jan Valtin's "Out of the Night." The book's account of the vicious Gestapo, the Nazi's secret police, seemed to him "preposterous." Then, in May of 1945, he went to Germany as a medic with the U.S. Army and changed his mind. "I've seen worse nights than any he described," he wrote to his parents.
Embedded reporting had not yet been invented when Thomas Jefferson watched a mob of Frenchmen storm the Bastille in 1789. As a result, his account is limited only by the quality of his sources. "How they got in," he wrote of the men and women who started the revolution, "has as yet been impossible to discover. Those, who pretend to have been of the party tell so many different stories as to discredit them all." Other events Jefferson relays more confidently, and with shocking calm: how the mob released prisoners, stole weapons, walked the Bastille's "Governor & Lieutenant governor" to the Guillotine–and then "cut off their heads."
AP - Waves of warplanes thundering through the darkness bombed Beirut's southern suburbs for hours early Sunday, a day after Israel stepped up its air strikes and tightened a noose around this reeling nation.
AP - Lebanon accused the United States on Saturday of blocking a U.N. Security Council statement calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, saying the impotence of the United Nations' most powerful body sent the wrong signal to small countries and the Arab world.
AP - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose limited sanctions on North Korea for its recent missile tests, and demanded that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile program. North Korea immediately rejected the resolution and vowed to launch more missiles.
• Israel declares state of emergency • Attacks destroying Lebanon, prime minister says • Explosions heard in Beirut throughout the night • Barrages of rockets fired into northern Israel