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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jason Miller stars as Cooper, and that is not a great deal of help. Miller's face is gouged by deep melancholy, but his hands wave about with abandon. He will begin to describe an elaborate ges ture, then pull his hand in close to his body. The effect is that of a man who has hailed a cab and then decided to walk home...
Whole World. Speaking in his Saigon palace to TIME Correspondent Peter Range, Thieu put the issue more starkly. "Do the American people like the sacrifice of 50,000 American boys to be in vain? How can you imagine coming here just to run and abandon the men who continue your ideals?" If the U.S. abandons Viet Nam, as the French did in 1954, Thieu insisted apocalyptically, "all Viet Nam will be a Communist country. All Indochina. All Southeast Asia. The whole world...
...evidence is that in his final days, Mao, with the ready assent of the versatile Chou, feels the need to bring more stable patterns to China and abandon-or at least temper-the rash experiments and the tumultuous campaigns for ideological purity. In true pragmatic style, Chou appears to be blocking out a program that will incorporate those things that have worked well as Mao sought, first one way and then another, to build a modern industrial state without at the same time creating a privileged technocratic elite...
...already indicated that Moscow is still looking toward the West, "not excepting the most economically powerful Western nation -the U.S.A." The Kremlin may now reckon that Congress, discouraged by its inability to make the Soviets change their internal policy and fearing a genuine breakdown in detente, will eventually abandon its demands. There is not the slightest indication that Congress will...
...Kippur War, Israel saw an unexpectedly high number of its soldiers fighting personal breakdown, from conversion symptoms (paralysis of a healthy leg, for example) to panic, amnesia and other classic reactions of "battle shock." Some of the effects were new to Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt...