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...ironic and unjust that Bill Clinton stayed in a four-bedroom suite at the Waldorf-Astoria last month for the United Nations' 50th anniversary that cost America $6,000 per night, at the same time that babies in Detroit or Los Angeles were being born into poverty so great their parents do not have the means to feed them? Or is it simply the beauty of capitalism...
This Saturday marks the 50th Veterans' Day since the end of World War II. Church bells will peal at 11 a.m., 50,000 active and veteran servicemen and -women will march up Fifth Avenue in New York City, and President Clinton will dedicate the site for a World War II memorial on the Mall in Washington. Wreaths will be laid, flags saluted, taps blown and countless speeches delivered to honor those who served in what's been called the Good War. Then the nation will get back to business, and the business of the nation these days is balancing...
...weeks ago, President Rabin came to lunch at TIME during his visit to New York City for the U.N.'s 50th anniversary. He had frequently met with TIME editors, but on what was to be our last encounter, his mood seemed especially reflective. Some of his comments...
...member countries of the U.N. marked the organization's 50th birthday at headquarters in New York City with three days of speechifying and celebrating. Each of 201 world leaders was allotted five minutes to speak from the General Assembly's rostrum; politicians being politicians, most of them took a little longer to make their points. Chief among their concerns: war, poverty and reform of the U.N., including the U.S.'s embarrassing refusal to pay its $1.2 billion dues in arrears...
...giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career--but not Maxene's. She went solo, wrote a memoir and recently helped veterans celebrate the 50th anniversary of a war she and her sisters had made slightly easier for Americans to endure...