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...thousands of people whose lives the organization has saved, the 50th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous, which will take place on June 10, commemorates one of the banner days of history. Said a member in Washington last week: "The press covered the anniversary of V-E day very heavily. Well, to a lot of people, the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous is an equivalent milestone." Small wonder. The loosely knit group, which now comprises more than 1 million people, one-third of whom are women, has firmly established itself as the most effec tive way for alcoholics to stay sober--and alive...
...ceremonies on France's Normandy beaches last June, a reunion of U.S. and Soviet veterans on the banks of the Elbe River late last month and President Reagan's visit to the German war cemetery at Bitburg. But the Soviet ceremony stood in sharp contrast to the muted V-E day commemorations a day earlier* in Western Europe --and once again highlighted the antipathy that has grown among erstwhile allies. Said a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "It has been very difficult for us to take the rewriting of history...
...State Department reacted to the Soviet hostility by instructing ambassadors and other heads of mission not to attend Soviet V-E day celebrations but instead to send lower-ranking diplomats. Arthur Hartman, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, boycotted the Red Square parade in specific protest against the killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson in March by a Soviet sentry in East Germany. But Hartman did lay a wreath at Moscow's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. "This is our tribute to those who gave their lives," he said. "It is the most significant ceremony...
...Eastern Europe, most V-E celebrations honored the victorious Red Army while acknowledging a lesser contribution from Western forces. Czechoslovakia emulated the Soviets with a large military parade. In Poland, traffic was halted briefly in Warsaw for a memorial ceremony...
...France, V-E day was a holiday, but in many respects it seemed business as usual. President Francois Mitterrand, a former Resistance fighter, reviewed troops in a brief ceremony and placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. He also sent a message to the Soviet Union in which he said that "the French have not forgotten the sacrifices of the Soviet people" in the battle against fascism...