Guadalcanal veterans recall 45 years of effort and pride
Ted Walker of Tennessee recalls the Guadalcanal campaign as a defining World War II battle. Veterans from across the country will meet in Norfolk, Virginia, August 13 to 16 to mark the 45th anniversary, honor the fallen, and reflect on the costly seaborne invasion that shortened the Pacific War.
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Pacific
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Coral Sea
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Ted Walker
Chattanooga
Tenn
Walker
Tennessee
Australia
New Zealand
Central Pacific
1St. Division
Charles S. Newman
Knoxville
Norfolk
Foot-stomping country music wins Polish festival praise
In Mragowo Poland more than 15000 fans attended a three day Piknik Country festival under rainy skies featuring American and Polish performers. Impresario Korneliusz Pacuda noted rising popularity as locals dance in aisles and on decks while Premier Polish star Michael Lonstar Luszczynski laments misperceptions of Ronald Reagan music. American acts like John Hilligoss and George Hamilton IV praised Polish fans for embracing country music and language evolution.
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Poland
Piknik
Nashville
Korneliusz Pacuda
Pacuda
Opry
Vistula
Soviet Bloc
America
Pawel Obrebski
Margorzata Retkowska
Michael “Lonstar
Luszczynski
Country Music Association of
Mazurian
U.S
John’ Hilligoss
Hilligoss
Bartlesville
Okla
George Hamilton IV
Mixed-race 'nation' clings to its independence
In Rehoboth Namibia, the Basters, descendants of Dutch settlers and Hottentots, maintain a fragile autonomy within SWA as a minority seeking federal guarantees amid a multi-party, postcolonial landscape. Kaptein Hans Diergaardt warns a one-man rule could erase minority rights while collaborating with white conservatives against black-dominated rule.
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South-West Africa
Tropic of Capricorn
Southern Africa
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Namibia
Maryland
Kaptein
Hans Diergaardt
Cape Province
Diergaardt
South Africa
League of Nations
United Nations
International Organization
South-West African People's Organization
U.N
Ovambos
SWAPO
West Germany
Baster
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LeMans
A.P.R
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Renn Kirby
Pontiac
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Hagerstown
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