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...troops join in the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The decision to send a team to Los Angeles had direct political benefits for Ceauşescu. Government broadcasters boasted that victorious Rumanians had "dedicated" their victories to their President, or were inspired by this month's 40th anniversary of Rumania's liberation from fascism. Moreover, with an ailing economy and a mountain of foreign debt, most of it owed to the West, there was no harm in projecting Rumania in the U.S. as a friendly and unorthodox Communist state worthy of special Western treatment...
...some 20 years later, half a globe away from Normandy [WORLD, June 18]. We had no Dday, but we had Tet. I have told my daughter I have no desire to return to Viet Nam. I wonder if history and world leaders will award us similar accolades on our 40th...
...ready becoming a palimpsest of confusion: diverse typists' errant renderings of various stages of Joyce's manuscript, compounded by a team of French-speaking printers who were being hectored by the author to get the finished product into his hands on the occasion of his 40th birthday...
...point of view, the London meeting might have been dubbed the Re-Election Summit. It capped a ten-day presidential tour that began with Reagan's nostalgic visit to ancestral soil in Ireland and continued with a highly photogenic appearance on the beaches of Normandy for the 40th anniversary of the D-day landings (see following story...
...most West Germans, no matter what their age, the pomp surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings came as a painful reminder that even after 35 years as a democratic country, the Federal Republic is not regarded in quite the same way as other West European nations. The D-day ceremonies posed a dilemma for West Germans. They would have liked to be part of a commemoration, but they could hardly be-and were not-expected to join in the celebration of what was for them a historic defeat. On the other hand, as key members of NATO, they...