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...fleet of landing craft the size of a dozen Spanish Armadas ("Every dot on that screen is one of our boats...we're making history"), The Big Red One focuses of five men, none of whom want to be heroes, all of whom desperately want to live to see V-E...
Last week the Washington Post, which got a tape of the meeting, published some quotes, and Wallace rushed to amend the record, by coincidence on the 30th anniversary of V-E day. In World War II, he said, the U.S. was "fighting the right people, but our diplomacy led us to fight people who should have been our friends." That revision made Wallace's original statement sound more reasonable, but his remarks will add to the worry in the liberal and moderate wings of the Democratic Party, which are already alarmed by his steady rise in the presidential polls...
...being viewed by some as a self-contained chapter of history, the rise and fall of the Western world's reliance upon the Pax Americana. One sign of the times was French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's announcement that France's 30th celebration of V-E day would be its last. Rather than sustain the memories of past animosities-and past alliances -Europeans should "open the way to the future and turn our thoughts to that which brings us together...
...moving toward the kind of political cohesion that would turn slogan to reality. The Atlantic Alliance is in an embarrassing state of disarray: Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark have cut their defense budgets; Greece and Turkey are still at odds over Cyprus; and France's Giscard, his V-E day proclamation notwithstanding, refuses to attend the meeting of NATO heads of state that will convene in Brussels later this month. Almost despite themselves, the Europeans seem to be heading toward Brussels hoping to find warmth and comfort in the glow of a chastened President Ford and Secretary...
...received an offer from MGM. Captain Jackson Tate, 47, had been assigned to Moscow to help the Russians in an abortive plan for the Soviet bombing of Japan. In the brief glow of Allied wartime collaboration, Zoya and Jack fell in love. Their last meeting was on V-E day 1945, when they hoped a child was conceived. If that proved to be so, the couple vowed to name the baby Victor or Victoria in honor of the Allied triumph. "It was a beautiful story," recalled Zoya in Moscow, "a romantic, tragic love story." But as that story unfolded last...