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...army unit in southern Britain to convince the Germans that the Normandy invasion would be directed toward the Pas-de-Calais, and it worked. The Soviets are the masters of military wile, although they do foul up at times. In the early 1970s, the U.S. spotted a Soviet "submarine" bent by a storm, a giveaway that the vessel was a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoys: Tanks but No Tanks | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, Gorbachev has bent to the hard-liners that have besieged him with demands for an authoritarian retrenchment. The big, bad bear is back, crushing unarmed demonstrators, establishing control, glutting the airwaves with propaganda--while 450,000 Soviet troops await orders from the Kremlin from posts throughout Eastern Europe. Suddenly, the regional power vacuum looms as a dangerous, unignorable challenge to international stability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 'New' 'World' 'Order' | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

...cannot express strongly enough our anger at Washington's treatment of the press in this crisis. We know precious little about what has actually happened in the last two days, and it seems like the Pentagon is bent on keeping the press out of the war. Unfortunately, without sufficient information it will be impossible for anybody to make intelligent decisions about the future of U.S. policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Continue the Offensive | 1/18/1991 | See Source »

...They have bent over backwards to make everyone happy," Tarter says. "I think these people have really realized how tough and what an imposition...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: In the Limelight: Students in `New Pathway' | 1/18/1991 | See Source »

Third Period: 3, N, Lisa Bent (Molly Matthews) 2:44; 4, N, Johnson (Karen Akre) 5:29; 5, N, Stephanie Dubiel (Bent, Shawna Davidson) 12:09; 6, N, Bent (Dubiel, Kelly Thorne...

Author: By Daniel E. Kosowsky, | Title: Wildcats Blister Icewomen, 6-0 | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

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