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...pissant country." Even less flattering language was used by many of the half a million Americans in uniform who made their way through, around and above it: trooping across swamps, languishing in Quonset huts, piloting PT boats, spacing out on drugs, shelling from offshore, amputating limbs, bombing from B-52s, killing, maiming -- and getting maimed and killed. How all that ended is well known. Bill Clinton, a college dissenter during the height of hostilities in Vietnam, showed last week that he could put a coda to that sad history and make a fresh start at pacification, this time with butter...
Some in Washington say Clinton should just order out the B-52s to bomb the North's plutonium reprocessing plant and two reactors, neatly destroying the danger. But that is unrealistic: a strike could spread a big radioactive cloud over the peninsula, miss hidden weapons or start a devastating war between North and South Korea. A more practical tactic would be the imposition of economic sanctions by the United Nations -- but even if China, long friendly to the North, did not veto an embargo, Pyongyang might feel cornered and lash...
Call them the ever-shrinking group. In their earliest days the B-52S were a quintet riding the new-wave crest, but the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson and the recent resignation of vocalist Cindy Wilson have dwindled the group to a trio. Still, as their seventh album, Good Stuff, demonstrates, their talent has by no means diminished. What were once "rapid-fire three-way vocals," as singer Kate Pierson calls them, are now back-and-forth dialogues between Pierson and Fred Schneider. Familiar motifs abound: hot pants, UFOs and mother earth. The music on the album is just...
...this album, and a full complement of strings that gives sophistication, for example, to the already much played single You Won't See Me Cry. Another standout is Fueled for Houston, a frolicking, hard-driving rock tune with a brassy edge that evokes the rawness of the B-52s...
...disarmament agreements with the former Soviet Union, 30 B-52 bombers are among the weapons that will be destroyed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The demolition provides the FAA with a chance to learn how to design passenger airliners that are more resistant to terrorist explosives. "The B-52s are a real windfall," says Lyle Malotky, the FAA's scientific adviser for aviation security. "When we laid out this program two years ago, we didn't expect to have such resources...