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...delivering a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, but his real audience was in Moscow. For some time, Reagan's aides had been concerned that the U.S. was sending confusing signals to the Soviets; Strasbourg seemed a per- fect place to clarify American positions. Speaking on the 40th anniversary of V-E day, Reagan offered olive branches from a mailed fist. He charged that the Soviets were building first- strike nuclear weapons and vowed that the U.S. would "resist attempts by the Soviet Union to use or threaten force against others, or to impose its system on others...
...with the American press, especially the networks, very much in mind. When NBC News Vice President Gordon Manning approached Hanoi officials a year ago about beaming live satellite reports back to the U.S. to mark the fall of Saigon, he found looks of surprise. "They kept saying that the 40th anniversary of the Vietnamese Communist Party's independence day (Sept. 2) would be important," said Manning. "The tenth anniversary was nothing." Network executives acknowledge that the Vietnamese built up the April 30 parade into an extravaganza of 10,000 marchers and 200,000 spectators because they knew the event would...
TIME also received, for the fifth consecutive year, the Olivier Rebbot Award,* presented by Newsweek, for the best photographic reporting from abroad. David Burnett won for TIME stories on the Ethiopian famine and the 40th anniversary of D-day, along with coverage of Jamaica for National Geographic. TIME Picture Editor Arnold H. Drapkin summed up the double win: "Although TIME is not generally thought of as a photo magazine, these awards, year after year, underscore TIME's pre-eminence in the field of photojournalism...
...many World War II veterans, this year's ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of the great conflict's end will be celebrations of survival and nostalgic returns to lost youthfulness. But one such gathering in Torgau, East Germany, last week had deeper significance. The event commemorated the April afternoon in 1945 when U.S. and Soviet soldiers encountered one another at the Elbe River in central Germany. At a time when U.S.-Soviet relations are chilly indeed, a few Americans met some of the Soviets they had first seen 40 years ago in what is likely to be the year...
...friendship" and called on veterans and young people to "prevent the fire of war from burning our earth." A few of the U.S. veterans were concerned about President Reagan's plans to visit the graves of German war dead in West Germany. Some distributed leaflets reading, "Celebrate the 40th anniversary of victory over Hitler with living American and Russian heroes, not dead Nazis...