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...mission in the Mekong Delta. I reckon that thousands of grunts went through the same experience. But if what they did was appalling, it was comprehensible. In a way, they were victims of the machine that vaulted them into a hot, humid, shadowy, alien environment in which friend and foe were a blur, and all a potential threat. Kerrey and his men, like their comrades in other detachments, were chronically and justifiably scared...
...mission in the Mekong Delta. I reckon that thousands of grunts went through the same experience. But if what they did was appalling, it was comprehensible. In a way, they were victims of the machine that vaulted them into a hot, humid, shadowy, alien environment in which friend and foe were a blur, and all a potential threat. Kerrey and his men, like their comrades in other detachments, were chronically and justifiably scared...
...ambitious and duplicitous to trust," says ally turned foe Gerard Pierre-Charles of the Democratic Convergence coalition, which has set up a rival government backed by the forces that sponsored the 1991 coup. Aristide aides accuse it of bankrolling street bombings. Convergence president Gerard Gourgue, 75, went underground for several days after Lavalas mobs attacked his offices last month...
...ever. The ad line for the 1943 film China read: "Alan Ladd and twenty girls - trapped by the rapacious Japs!" In the POW drama The Purple Heart, American airmen are tortured and executed for not ratting their pals. War movies reveled in a grim picture of the superhuman, subhuman foe - propaganda at its most lurid. As Bruce Jackson, who had been a World War II marine, wrote ironically in 1995: "Japs, as we learned from the newsreels that accompanied the double features, were fanatics who jumped up and down waving swords while screaming 'Banzai!' Japs gleefully died for Emperor Hirohito...
JESSE HELMS Onetime Mexico foe goes south of the border to expand his horizons. Next stop, Cuba...