Word: berlin
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...Europeans, especially in West Germany. The first nine of a planned force of 108 Pershing II missiles are to be deployed in West Germany on a still undisclosed date in December. Peace groups have scheduled massive demonstrations against the deployment for Oct. 22 in Hamburg, Bonn, Stuttgart and West Berlin...
...Allies should have been trying to seize Antwerp. That would have opened up the European port nearest Germany's heartland and, he asserts, ended the war months sooner. Even worse, as the Wehrmacht collapsed, Eisenhower turned his armies toward the Alps instead of racing the Soviets to Berlin, a blunder that left a lasting imprint on the map of Europe...
...added force to his argument with a provocative historical revelation. In private conversations with Kennedy and Johnson, McNamara says he recommended that they never "under any circumstances" use nuclear weapons. "I believe they accepted my recommendation," he wrote. According to McNamara, Kennedy never considered using nuclear weapons during the Berlin crisis in 1961 or the Cuban missile showdown...
...title is a bit of a tease. The most recent song on What's New is Crazy He Calls Me (1949). The earliest, What'll I Do?, is a certifiable, card-carrying Irving Berlin classic, vintage...
Judith Reiffel Berlin...