Mitterrand came clean about his World War II past, but only late into his final term as president.
But this series is the closest since John Bertrand skippered Australia II past Dennis Connor's Liberty on the final lap for an improbable 4-3 series win in 1983.
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Obama has spoken of the bravery of Poles during World War II in past speeches.
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The BBC's Kerry Skyring in Vienna says that - like Austria itself - the Vienna Philharmonic has been slow to get to grips with its past during World War II.
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The same cannot be said of the administration's decision to send its delegation to the Durban II planning session this past week in Geneva.
During his summit meeting last November in Crawford, Texas with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Bush announced the sentence: By ten years from now, the United States will have cut its nuclear arsenal from the present roughly 6500 weapons, past the 3500 allowed under START II, to no more than 1700-2200 deployed nuclear arms.
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Boston Borough Council has been trying to sell the Assembly Rooms for the past six years, saying the Grade II listed structure had no official use.
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Back in November Samsung announced it had pushed past five million channel sales of the Note II in around two months.
My worry is that Americans who lived through the devastations of the past -- the Depression and World War II -- are dying off.
The title of the manga has uncomfortable echoes of Japan's militaristic past: Yamato is the name of an imperial warship sunk during World War II.
Since his election as Pope seven years ago, Benedict has consistently tried to correct what he regards as a misinterpretation of Vatican II, insisting that it did not mark a revolutionary break from the past, as liberal Catholics would have it, but rather a renewal of the best traditions of the ancient Church.
In fact, the special relationship has been buoyed up these past 60 years or so by certain quirks in personalities and events beginning after World War II with Clement Atlee's Labour government.
The way I've described it to people in the past has been if you've ever seen any of the documentaries of World War II when the Allies were bombing Europe, that's what the level of destruction looked like.
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After surviving Japanese occupation during World War II, Hong Kong became by one reckoning the fastest-growing city in the world over the past 30 years.
The Georgian, Grade II-listed Lady Gillford's House has been transformed from a state of dereliction over the past nine years to become the focal point of the archive.
Having witnessed the worst atrocities of humanity in World War II and been left to rack and ruin in communist times, it has been reborn in the past few years as Krakow's arty enclave and happening nightlife district.
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