Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McGovern's "New Realism" platform retained the liberal and antiwar tone of his 1972 campaign. Its major planks: a call to arms control, an end to U.S. military involvement in Central America and improved relations with Cuba. Commented Los Angeles Attorney and Democratic Strategist Mickey Kantor: "He is a decent bright man, but he is tilting at windmills that no longer exist...
...chant. Cut It Away ("Somebody cut away this desperate heart/ Cut it away before it tears my whole life apart") is a racked-up love song about the dissolution of Browne's marriage to onetime Model Lynne Sweeney. Say It Isn't True is a stone-simple antiwar song, throbbing with a synthesizer line that pulses away insistently like the red warning light flashing on a war-room console. Browne makes no apologies for the directness. "Say It Isn't True is sincere to the point of being embarrassing," he says. "But not really...
...only is the military standing tall again, it is staging a remarkable comeback in the quantity and quality of the recruits it is attracting. Recruiters, once denounced by antiwar students as "baby killers" and barred from campuses, are welcomed even at elite universities. ROTC programs that faltered during the Viet Nam era, when protesters were fire bombing their headquarters, are flourishing again. The military academies are enjoying a steady increase in applications. Says Colonel Manley Rogers, director of admissions for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: "If someone wishes to complete his basic training by Christmas...
...Franco-Prussian War, which he decisively won. Governmental forgery goes on, in many guises and places. The practices of the Soviet Union's KGB have made the term disinformation familiar to millions. During the late 1960s, the FBI'S attempts to sow dissent among radical and antiwar groups in the U.S. involved some flat-out fakery...
...April 21, 1972: "Subject's activities being closely followed, and any information developed indicating violation of federal laws will be immediately furnished to pertinent agencies in an effort to neutralize any disruptive activities of the subject." The bureau even stuffed into its dossier lyrics from Lennon's antiwar songs...