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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he did get up and hear the news, he persisted in believing that the Normandy invasion was just a feint, that he still had to guard against the real invasion that would occur at Calais. Not until ten hours after the Normandy landings did the first tanks of the 21st Panzer Division go into action against the British, and the British beat them back. When Rommel finally returned to his headquarters that night, he found his chief of staff, Lieut. General Hans Speidel, listening to Wagnerian opera records. One of Rommel's aides protested, but Speidel coolly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Every Man Was a Hero A Military Gamble that Shaped History | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...possibly sometime in 1987. Even so, the plant may never pay for itself. Paul F. Gray, head of the Massachusetts Department of Utilities, said of Seabrook, "What is being built was going to save enough oil to pay for itself and in time it might. But that may, not occur for seven to 10 years, if ever-so what customers see in their bills when the plant comes on line is rate shock...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Costly Losers | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, who helped organize the visit said it was aimed at discussing ways to "stamp out" possible causes of nuclear war at various stages of a crisis, and investigating approaches to managing and controlling crises that might occur...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Professor Helps Lead U.S.-Soviet Talks | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

...Bounty, the climax supposedly occurs with the actual mutiny, yet when the mutiny does occur towards the end of the film, it seems to come with a sense of fizzling. Bligh is too pathetic to have deserved the disruption of his ship, and Christian too wimpy to lead such an adventure. The Bounty turns out to be a very frustrating movie; it drags out the plot so much that when a crucial action does occur, we are so numbed by the close-ups of the isolated characters or the grand views of the ocean that the drama loses all sense...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uninspired Remake | 5/8/1984 | See Source »

...hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condemnation | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

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