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But this year the Fourth was different. The fireworks seemed more brilliant, the crowds denser and more celebratory. Americans' sense of pride in their nation seemed clearer and surer than it has in a long time. This year the fireworks appeared to suggest a large and complicated and real...
Before we lose ourselves in an orgy of self-congratulation over the Normandy invasion, we should recall that in 1944 we were allied with the Soviet Union. It is sobering to reflect on what might have happened on the beaches of France had the cream of Germany's armed...
Mondale had also earned a moment of self-congratulation. He had shed enough of his Norwegian reserve to kill the old suspicion, once expressed by his Minnesota mentor Hubert Humphrey, that he lacked "fire in the belly." Still carrying Humphrey's banner of liberalism and contending that his was the...
Still, cacophonous notes of political strife and financial anxiety keep rumbling amid the harmony. Repeated attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf pose a delicate problem of how to protect Western oil supplies without risking U.S. involvement in the Iran-Iraq war. America's relations with the Soviet Union...
Thus the Games will open on schedule in a mood of well-justified gaiety and self-congratulation among the Yugoslavs. Branko Mikulic, the forceful fist banger who is president of Yugoslavia's Olympic Organizing Committee, and a former president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, of which Sarajevo is the capital, guaranteed the...