Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie claims, Americans dropped more bombs on Viet Nam than they did on Germany during all of World War II. In that case, one more bomb may not matter. Its name is The Green Berets, based on Robin Moore's bestseller. To Producer, Co-Director and Star John Wayne, the war is primer-simple. There's them and there's us. Us are the Green Beret crack troops led by Wayne with a chestful of fruit salad and a no-nonsense approach to the dovish American press, personified by David Janssen. During the beating...
...saying that the U.S. couldn't win in Viet Nam, Alsop, writes Miller, called the Senator's office three times to denounce him as a "traitor" to his country. To win in Viet Nam, Alsop is even willing to use what he calls "Mr. Big"-the atom bomb-Miller says. "Friends call the Alsop manner imperial," sums up Miller; "enemies, when they are being kind, refer to it as arrogant...
...criticism was published, he dashed off a scorching letter to Harper's-though he does not plan to answer the Center. He hotly denied that he had ever called Kennedy, one of his favorite politicians, a traitor. He said that he had never referred to the atom bomb as "Mr. Big," or advocated its use anywhere. He conceded that he had been "overoptimistic" about the "timing" of events in the Viet Nam war, and promised not to get trapped into making such predictions again. But he stuck to his guns on the progress...
...most people today, the word brings to mind a fetchingly skimpy swimsuit. Few now recall that Bikini was the site of the world's fourth atom ic detonation and the cradle of the hydrogen bomb. It has been 22 years since the atoll's docile people were banished by the atom, and gentling nature and the passage of time have leached away Bikini's residual radiation. Lush vegetation once more covers the island. Through their long exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront...
...issue, long overshadowed by Great Society triumphs. (Of course it might also have become a very live issue, had it been followed by other conflicts in Asia.) Instead, banking on his mandate, Johnson chose escalation, convinced that he could avoid a big land war by using "cheap" airpower to bomb the North. But the result, Wicker argues, was that Johnson simply created in the South big airbases that invited guerrilla attack and required all the more U.S. troops for their protection. Not only did the Northern bombing prove relatively ineffective against the Southern enemy; it was also difficult to halt...