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...when the strip had hit its stride, it had pretty much vacated Walden for more pertinent venues: Cambodia, California, Washington. The show, however, mostly stays home to tackle other earth-moving topics. Will Mike Doonesbury (Ralph Bruneau), who is presented onstage as a whiny, pigeon-toed virgin reminiscent of Walter Denton on the old Our Miss Brooks TV series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed...
...days after The Day After, the Public Broadcasting Service showed a film that was strikingly similar and strikingly different: Cambodia and Laos, the ninth installment of its seemingly interminable history of the Viet Nam War. Compared with the 100 million people who watched the imaginary bombing of Lawrence, Kans., only a minuscule number watched the real bombing of Cambodia. The press, which devoted large headlines to The Day After, lost Cambodia in a kind of time warp. Since TV shows get covered when they start, the Viet Nam series had been widely reviewed two months before-old news...
Schwartzstein: I would take issue with that. First of all, there have been enough reports from individuals who come from Laos and Cambodia. The reports of use go back to about 1976, but it wasn't until 1981 that the State Department released any literature at all. There's been a lot of sample testing between those years and it all turned out negative. When, in the summer of 1981, the samples were run through and tested for the presence of mycotoxins, it came out positive. The feeling was that there was the explanation...
...investigation is necessary. And the United Nations, in the autumn of 1980 mandated a four-member panel to do an investigation. That investigation that demanded of that investigatory panel was renewed in the autumn of 1981. Significantly, none of the countries in which the chemical warfare was reported, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, were admitted to that UN panel or had access to its territory...
...made Cambodia a huge prison. The whole country was impossible to live in--there was no light of freedom, no sense of life," he said...