Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Mike Mansfield in typical understatement. Democratic Senator John L. McClellan, a longtime Viet Nam hawk whose Appropriations Committee would have to approve the military aid request, expressed a prevailing congressional view: "I think it's too late to do any good. Further military aid could merely prolong the conflict and perhaps postpone briefly the inevitable ?a Communist victory, a complete takeover...
...rhetoric of the Bicentennial serves quite a different purpose for this country's government than it did for Ho Chi Minh. Instead of glorifying a new struggle, it serves to parody an old one, with a trumped-up consensus which conceals real inequality and conflict. One way to repudiate this attempt at a false consensus is through demonstrations, like the one the People's Bicentennial Commission has called for this Friday night. The Commission's plan for a midnight-to-draw vigil at Concord was unnecessarily theatrical, and its planners' emphasis on vogue phrases about "economic independence," or sending "Wall...
...cover then was that of the country's embattled Emperor Bao Dai; the issue was whether the U.S. should heed appeals for American assistance in the French struggle against Viet Minh insurgents. In the quarter-century since then, events have compelled cover treatment of the seemingly endless Indochina conflict no fewer than 64 times. Whether or not some sort of final resolution of war is at last at hand, the anonymous Vietnamese orphan on the cover of this week's issue seems an inescapably appropriate symbol of the military and political, but above all human drama that...
This dilemma produced not only tragedy for the Vietnamese but a series of mistakes, half-truths, lies and euphemisms that damaged the fabric of American society. Leaders first deceived themselves and then deceived the public. The American people, misled from the top and from the sides, underwrote an opaque conflict that neither generals nor Presidents quite comprehended. The tragedy was only heightened by the fact that the U.S. entered the war not for any base reasons, but out of an understandable desire-although many saw the conflict as merely a civil war-to thwart Communist aggression. Even Senator J. William...
...story of the Duval duchy began in 1911 when three Mexican Americans were gunned down in San Diego by a gang of Anglos opposed to the town's incorporation under Chicano control. Ethnic conflict reached a high pitch. Alone among the area's "Americans" to champion the Mexicans' po sition was George's father Archie Parr, a small-time rancher. For years thereafter, the Mexicans - who still make up 90% of the population of Duval and surrounding counties - honored Parr as their cacique. Parr saw to it that roads were built, local government jobs were manufactured...