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...seen as a celebration of the wartime victory over the Germans rather than a time for the victor to join hands with the vanquished. Kohl was miffed, and his resentment lingered. When it turned out that the economic summit would bring Reagan to Bonn shortly before May 8, the V-E day anniversary, Kohl saw a chance to regain lost prestige. He thought some expression of the new bonds between his country and the U.S. would be in order 40 years after the wartime enmity. At the State Department, top officials viewed the occasion as a way to solidify...
...didn't create these series, but it lent them urgency, focusing as each does on that basic high school and Hollywood concern: popularity. Set in America's laboratories of tyranny, empathizing with misfits, the shows purvey the myth that much as there were suddenly no Nazis in Germany after V-E day, there are now apparently almost no former popular high school kids. "I very much identified myself as an outsider [in high school]," says Katims. "I was king of the geeks," says Manchester Prep creator Roger Kumble. "I totally think I'm a geek," says Leslie Bibb, who plays...
...members of the Jewish underground found a need for the ship in the confused days after V-E Day, when many concentration camp survivors were living in displaced persons camps, waiting for admission to Palestine...
When the invasion of Italy was planned, the Allies needed intelligence for the landing at Sicily. Lucky for them, again. On V-E day in 1945, Luciano's lawyer petitioned for clemency, citing his war efforts...
...just the sort of boosterish hyperbole one expects from a New York City mayor. But Giuliani does have a point. Times Square probably has as great a hold on the nation's imagination as any piece of American real estate: The Great White Way! Bobby-soxers and Frank Sinatra! V-E...