Word: d-day
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...witching glass in Snow White. Elsewhere on the album, it can reflect dark corridors as Young free-associates, remembering on the title track, for example, a friend who died too soon. In the second verse of Western Hero, Young sounds as if he had been touched by the D-day memorials just past, but instead of summoning old shades once again, his lyric constructs a taut envoi to American idealism...
...will he keep it tipped? Not for long. Aristide is a liberation theologian. His people are starved for freedom. Neither will long tolerate -- let alone express gratitude for -- foreign domination. No one does. In 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered American troops -- successors of the D-day soldiers who had liberated France from Hitler and were now part of NATO -- to get out of France. "Do you want us to move American cemeteries out of France as well? asked Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...White House, the Yale graduate specialized in foreign affairs speeches and accompanied the President on his highly publicized D-Day tour through western Europe this summer...
...read everything under the sun--a ton of D-Day books, interviewed D-Day vets," says Liu, a Poughkeepsie, N.Y. native. "I've never been so steeped in a subject. The other speech writers and I lived and breathed it for two months...
Last week the Clinton Administration took another step toward proving otherwise. At a meeting with Caribbean nations in Jamaica, American officials persuaded Barbados, Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to contribute 266 troops to an invasion force. Tiny as that number is, it accomplishes one step needed before D-day: throwing a "multinational" cloak over the operation. Deputy Secretary of Defense John Deutch declared that a "multinational" force would go into Haiti, peacefully or otherwise. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott added that if the Cedras clique was still in power when the troops arrived, its members would be arrested...