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An appropriate car for a young Marine Infantry officer who doesn't want to go into major debt that eats up his paycheck every month. The stunt that Anna pulled at the dance at the Wahlstatt Academy was the last straw. I doubt that the Marine Infantry has female members, so that means Tilo and...

I would think that the most Pro-Unionist Irish Protestants would choose to emigrate to places that were considered to be more "Protestants" friendly, and as white, English speaking Protestants, they would be very welcomed in the United States, and they would have no trouble assimilating in to...

Flames out spectacularly. By 1992 Democratic Presidential primary voters were firmly Pro-Choice, and Gov. Casey would not have reached the minimum threshold to receive delegates. The controversy about him not being allowed to speak at the convention was just a media invention trying to create a...

This means that Pope Paul the ITTL VI has decided to give a very generous financial settlement to the victims and their families with concrete proposals for reforms in order to stop the bleeding that the Church is having right now with the Faithful. The agreement about the monetary payments is...

Anna’s comeuppance is when her Cousin Erich of the Marine Infantry pulls up in a lorry and tells her hi is just repaying back her father by taking her to the KLM women’s boot camp to start her new career as a Mess Mate on His Imperial Majesty’s Ships.

I also enjoy the Stoughton-Hendrix chapters, I am very bemused by how Speaker Stoughton seems to genuinely like Hendrix and see him as a protege and has given him opportunities that otherwise that Hendrix wouldn’t get because his lack of seniority. While James Hendrix is put off by Stoughton’s...

With no clear frontrunner for the presidential nomination, that means the control of the convention is in the hand of the Democratic National Committee and that is in turn is controlled by President Nixon. Speaker of the House is usually by tradition is the Chairman of the convention of whatever...

It is tradition that the Speaker of the House is the Chairman of his or her see Nancy Pelosi party convention except when they are actively supporting a candidate. IOTL Speaker Tip O' Neil was the Convention Chairman as a way to be neutral between the sitting President Carter and his home state...

The idea that Margaret would outlive her husband, Sir Malcolm is somehow very blasphemous to me as I see Margaret having no problems with putting him in to a "good" long term care facility as she lives out her life without Sir Malcolm stopping her worst impulses, remember that Margaret is the...

Alabama would have been in a much better position to come back from the "Death Penalty" then SMU, Alabama was a large public university with an even bigger athletic program with only Auburn University competing against them on an equal footing in the state. SMU was a small private university...

The 1980 Democratic National Convention is going to be a fun one, as apparently there is no front runner among the declared candidates, and more importantly, no one has anywhere near the majority of the delegates to win the nomination. After the first ballot, if there is no one who have achieved...

With a throwaway line, Kat shows the disdain she has for competitive sports and also having the long term interest of Sophie by steering her into a career in Sports Medicine. Sophie has used her cycling for validation from others but now she is beginning to understand that no matter how many...

I doubt that Sophie complained to Kat about what Elke was saying about her in the press, but Kat waited until she saw that it was beginning to affect Sophie in her training for Moscow, then the quiet words with great meaning were said to Elke. This shows Kat that even through her "Kittens" are...

The 1980 Presidential Primaries are going on, and it is less than a month until they are over. This should boost Sen. Mark Felt (R-ID) as Idaho gets a lot of the ash fall and Federal Disaster Relief funds are needed, and guess who's is front of the line grabbing every dollar possible? For...

With the ITTL Pope Paul VI being Spanish, I could see a Catholic Revival happening in Spain at this point ITTL. I also could see the Popes from the POD, being the same as IOTL up to Pope Plus XII. I don't know if Angelo Roncalli(Pope John XXIII), or Giovanni Montini (IOTL Paul VI) becomes...