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...joyous release from conflict that it seemed to anyone who still remembers that bright spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone of seem ingly permanent confrontation. Last week the nations that battled for the soil of Europe were marking the anniversary in very different ways. The following stones from three European capitals examine their separate observances and separate fates...
...aloud: "If only they'd let us lose the map." Last week their Commander in Chief, Richard Nixon, ordered them to do exactly that. Pointing to the Communist sanctuaries on his own White House map, the President announced that he had ordered thousands of U.S. combat troops onto Cambodian soil to knock them...
Hickel pointed out that the proposed line would carry hot oil over frozen soil. Unless designed with extreme care, he insisted, it would act like a hot poker on a cake of ice. After thawing the permafrost, the line might sag into the slush and finally break, spilling oil that could do great harm because it would last for years. Moreover, the line's route would cross earthquake zones. Since each mile of pipe would have a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude, any break in the line could have disastrous consequences...
...proslave band sacked free-soil Lawrence in 1856; Abolitionist John Brown responded by massacring five alleged slave owners at nearby Osawatomie a few days later. In 1863, an outlaw band, led by the notorious William Clarke Quantrill, descended on the town like Attila's Huns. Before they left, they had burned most of the town and murdered 142 of its citizens...
...Cone Crater, where they may find very ancient debris from the huge meteor impact that created the Sea of Rains some 300 miles away. Their most unusual exercise will probably be Haise's "footprint caper," during which he will plant his boot in a pile of soil and photograph the imprint. Purpose: to study the clinging power of moon dust...