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...this account, in which they had repeatedly been attacked and despoiled by the French, by Napoleon, by Louis XIV. Indeed, this conflict went back beyond the birth of either nation, to the time when the Romans subdued the Gauls but not the Germans, thus establishing the Rhine as the frontier of what was then considered the civilized world...
...burst into the Chancellery in Vienna and shot down Conservative Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. That was supposed to be the start of a Nazi coup, but Justice Minister Kurt von Schuschnigg rallied the police and had the assassins arrested. Italy, which had guaranteed Austrian independence, mobilized four divisions on the frontier. Hitler backed down. By 1938, however, he had built a threatening army and had won the support of Italy's Mussolini (they had signed a secret protocol in 1936 creating what Mussolini called the Rome-Berlin axis). It was time to try again...
Some 800 miles to the west, at Montana's Fort Missoula, is a premier exhibit of photographs and artifacts from life in the thriving frontier city exactly a century ago. Established in 1877, the outpost became known as "Fort Fizzle" because Indians fleeing from Idaho to Canada merely detoured around the fortification. The exhibit includes furniture, clothing, tools, weaponry and a reproduction of a 41-star American flag that was never mass-produced. Reason: more states were already slated for admission the next year. A banquet menu indicates that the framers of the state constitution dined on the likes...
TRAVEL: For those who trouble to venture beyond the expressway, the character and color of the frontier are alive and well...
...last commercial-free frontier is about to be breached. When the first British-Soviet space mission blasts into orbit in 1991, the event will have all the advertising hoopla of the Super Bowl. Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency, has hired Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi agency to package corporate sponsorships, similar to those sold for the Olympic Games. The marketing ploy could raise an estimated $26 million to help pay for the project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint project...