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...Quebec has been lost. The socialist New Democrat Party regained many supporters that Mr. Trudeau had successfully weaned away. Despite Mr. Turner's courageous decision to seek and win a seat in Western Canada--the one part of the country that remained impervious to Mr. Trudeau's charms--the beachhead is small...
...halt, and even reverse" the deployment of U.S.-built intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could reach a satisfactory arms-control agreement. Those offers were quickly dismissed by the official Soviet news agency TASS as "glib" and "hypocritical." On the Normandy beachhead, Reagan tried again. Said he: "There is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union...
...beachhead in the Pacific. He was scared to death. Heavy enemy fire was killing his buddies all around him. When a shell burst near by, he felt an excruciating pain and the sensation of blood pouring down his leg. There was a call for a corpsman, and he was carried to a medical station, where doctors discovered he had indeed been hit-on his canteen. They sent him back out. More shells, more bombs...
...inland some 20 miles on D-day itself, well beyond Caen, a commercial crossroads. Partly out of caution, partly out of weariness, the vanguard of the British I Corps halted for the night about halfway there, some four miles north of the city. Compared with the victory on the beachhead, the failure to reach Caen that first day seemed a minor shortcoming. Montgomery even invited Churchill on June 10 to visit his forward headquarters in a lake-studded Norman chateau, and Churchill admired "the prosperity of the countryside ... full of lovely red and white cows basking or parading...
National first approached Nippon Kokan about a joint venture last July. Love knew that the Japanese company wanted a beachhead in the U.S. In 1979 Nippon Kokan considered buying plants from Kaiser Steel, but backed out after deciding that the facilities were outdated. Last year the Japanese firm broke off negotiations to buy Ford's Rouge Steel unit, mainly because the United Auto Workers would not make wage concessions. This time Nippon Kokan did not insist on a new contract with National's steelworkers, though they make an average of $21 an hour in wages and benefits, compared...