Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabin's stern Diktat was not unprecedented; former Minister Eban was prohibited from publishing his diplomatic memoirs of the Six-Day War. Large portions of Golan's 300-page review of the Yom Kippur War and its diplomatic aftermath consisted of official documents tied together with transitional passages. As diplomatic correspondent of the fiercely independent Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz (circ. 55,000), Golan obviously had access to top-level sources, possibly within Israel's notoriously leaky Cabinet. Along with trading Kissinger stories last week, Israelis debated the identity of their own Deep Throat...
...pitiful plight of the Vietnamese people," Hartke told his colleagues, "it is clear that Indochina was a drama without villains." However bad, however destructive, however unjustified American Indochina policy may have been, Hartke said, the men who made that policy should not be judged too severely in the aftermath. The war makers, he explained, were "desperate men caught up in a process that had a momentum of its own and which they neither understood nor could control...
...military operation and its aftermath leave several questions unanswered. For instance, the fact that the Defense Department had reason to believe that the crew members had been taken off Koh Tang--as in fact, they were--suggests that Ford sent Marines on to Koh Tank island not to retrieve crew members, but with no other purpose than to reassert American strength by killing Cambodian soldiers. All of the official postmortems emphasize the fact that the crew members were saved, without saying why Marines attacked Koh Tang when there was a reasonable doubt that crew members were still there...
...macabre carnival of the '60s has long since subsided, although it worked profound changes in America. It remains a question, though, what lessons were carried away from Viet Nam on those last helicopters (see Opinion, page 20). And how Americans finally feel about the aftermath will partly depend on how the victors act in Indochina...
...Jerusalem, Israelis rancorously debated the crisis in their special relationship with the U.S. in the aftermath of the Kissinger standoff...