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At Supreme Allied Headquarters in Paris, reporters had been rounded up on 15 minutes' notice the previous afternoon and loaded onto a plane. Only after they were airborne did a general tell them that they were to cover the surrender and that the story was off the record until the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: There Was Such a Feeling of Joy | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

On the other side of the Iron Curtain, today a gash of electrified fences and minefields, the challenge that began on V-E day has had very different dimensions. For the nations of Eastern Europe, the prospect of a new, democratic postwar era vanished with Stalin's unkept pledge to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: From Rubble To Renewal | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Even as the suicide drivers brought more terror to a long-suffering area, a Syrian-sponsored meeting of Lebanese Muslim leaders was gathering in Damascus to hammer out a new peace plan for Lebanon. After more than eleven hours of talks, Shi'ite, Sunni and Druze leaders announced a 16...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Crackdown on Jewish Militants | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Although U.S. officials were pleased by Hanoi's pledge to return American MIAs, they doubted that Viet Nam was signaling a fundamental shift in policy. The Thach proposal shrewdly preceded the annual conference of the non-Communist Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where ASEAN foreign ministers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Wary U.S. Aid Envoys seek to end a conflict | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

This pledge was made to English benefactors who donated to Harvard during its financial troubles of the 1640s on the condition that the College promote Christian ideals among “heathens.”

Author: By Joy C. Lin, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Indian Tribe Back in Yard | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

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