1993Year In this century "this terrible century," Hannah Arendt called it -- the world has experienced inhumanity on an unprecedented scale. Hitler and Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot knew no limits in the pursuit of doctrine or power. Against such monstrous savagery, what can individuals do? Resistance must seem hopeless. But sometimes decency and courage find a voice, and make a difference. Abroad at Home

1923Year entertains Mussolini at dinner MUSSOLINI ENVOY'S GUEST.

1932Year Amb Debuchi predicts strengthening of cordial relations DEBUCHI RETURNS

1937Year Radio s on Navy Day SUBMARINE SOUNDS GO TO NATION BY AIR

1980Year ROCK music has been around long enough to have a history. And when you have a history, it's possible to undertake all sorts of quasi-archeological explorations among the artifacts of the past. Two recent record releases qualify as such explorations, even if one is by a still-active group. The Pop Life

1996Year Along with Nuremberg, which took place only a year after the Allied victory, and the Adolph Eichmann case of 26 years ago, this was one of the three great war-crime trials in the West. It differed from the others because Klaus Barbie had done more than sign papers and give orders. He had personally tortured victims. He had liked his work, deriving satisfaction from the brutal extraction of information. But even so, Barbie's character was not the most significant difference. What was most amazing was that, after 40 years, the details of what happened could still be told with such vigor by people who had been there and back. . . . Some of the witnesses had never said a word about it before, not to their friends, not to their children, because they were afraid they would not be believed. Marcel Stourdze, who was easy to spot because of his white beard and his odd-looking leather back brace, which stuck up from his collar like a huge spoon, said: "The human mouth cannot express what we went through." The 1980's: Aug. 2, 1987