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Perhaps it is the absurdity of couples gushing vows to one another in honor of the brutal killing of a Roman saint. Or perhaps it was the fact I only got two Valentine's Day cards in my box throughout elementary school...
...Paris, Anderson was unhappy with her specially designed gown from the French couturier Ungaro. She promptly began pulling it apart. To the rescue of French couture -- and that evening's gala -- rode "a nice man who got down on his knees and began pinning." His name? Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent's multimillionaire business partner and France's culture czar...
Allied commanders say they must stay alert because the Soviet Union still has formidable forces across the crumbling East-West divide. "Yes, communism is proving to be a failure, but the fact is that the Soviet army hasn't retreated," says General Crosbie E. Saint, commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. "They have taken some old equipment out, some second-echelon stuff, but not much has changed as far as we're concerned. It isn't over, over there...
...Saint and his NATO and U.S. superiors are concerned about a reversal of the political process in Eastern Europe and about the instability shaking the old Soviet bloc. But they are even more worried about what military planners call "a diminished threat perception" in the West. They fear that this will lead to a precipitous and unwarranted U.S. withdrawal from Europe, whose defense accounts for about 24% of the annual $286 billion Pentagon budget. "What we consider to be the immediate threat from the Warsaw Pact has receded," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. "We have to base our security...
That political caution was a major reason for the tankless Reforger maneuvers. "We have always been reluctant to run over people's potato patches, and we have always tried to be polite," says Saint, the U.S. Army commander. "But they don't design 60-ton tanks to be polite...