Sylvia Poggioli reports on the Italian port city of Trieste (tree-EST), where the first East-West confrontation of the Cold War took place in 1945. Between 1945 and 1954, a total of one hundred twenty thousand U-S soldiers served a peacekeeping mission in Trieste similar to the current mission of U-N peacekeepers in the former Yoguslavia. Trieste recently welcomed back the American peacekeepers who served there after World War Two and thanked them for their service.
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