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ATOP A GRASSY HILL OVERLOOKING THE PLAIN AT Dien Bien Phu, where almost 4,000 French soldiers died and nearly 11,000 were taken prisoner 39 years ago, President Francois Mitterrand listened as General Maurice Schmitt pointed out the landmarks: the mountains from which General Vo Nguyen Giap's troops bombarded the fields below, the airstrip, the hilltop positions that fell one by one until General Christian de Castries and his exhausted men finally surrendered on May 7, 1954, ushering in the end of France's colonial rule in Indochina. "I felt the need to pay my respects," said Mitterrand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Back | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...then, one day, as I was playing with my food, the good Lord saw fit to enlighten me with a creative revelation I was eating some plain white rice...

Author: By Jon A. Bresman, | Title: The Collective Editorial of Rice | 2/20/1993 | See Source »

...know I have to live with it 'til the spring," says Luu, who was wearing a plain yellow hat he borrowed from his roommate...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Baseball Hat Fad | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...PLEASURE TO MEET UP AGAIN with the Wittings, the warm, turn-of-the- century farm family introduced in Sarah, Plain and Tall, the Hallmark Hall of Fame 1991 hit. In SKYLARK (Feb. 7, CBS), the mail-order marriage of Sarah (Glenn Close) and Jacob (Christopher Walken) has turned into a tender love match, and Sarah's stepchildren are thriving. The problem is nature: a serious drought is threatening life on the Kansas plains. In Sarah, Jacob was the one who had to put his past in perspective; this time, the drought forces his wife to take a similar journey. Unfortunately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Feb. 8, 1993 | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...accounts, the dispute centered on the cover art for the album Home Invasion, which Ice-T was scheduled to release in March. The cover Ice-T proposed reportedly showed a white teen listening to music on headphones and imagining black men attacking whites. Warner Bros. preferred a plain, solid-blue cover with only the album's title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iceman Goeth | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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