Word: gi
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...premier issue of a new annual magazine has appeared on some racks. It is called Vietnam Combat, subtitled The Blood, the Guts & the Glory of the American GI. The magazine romanticizes the war and its warriors, details battle strategy, and best of all, for just $2.95, describes the American victory. A considerably more serious project is a 20-volume history, overseen by Robert Manning, former editor of the Atlantic, and distributed by TIME-LIFE Books, called The Vietnam Experience. Originally intended to sell about 120,000 copies, it has stirred enough interest so that its press run will probably...
...common sense measures that groups from the Boers to the Rhmer Rouge have taken to mount effective insurrections. But aided by a lack of press coverage of that region Reagan has been able to play down the real consequences of his policies, making the contras sound like cartoon GI Joes fighting for truth and justice with guns that only kill Commies. The matter-of-fact Macchiavellianism of the CIA's booklet underscores the ugly truth that we are not with the good guys, which is not to imply that we are lighting them, either...
Members of the Gay and Lesbian Students Association (GI SA) are quietly working this term to garner Faculty and administration support for a second attempt this spring to get Faculty approval for a formal policy of non-discrimination toward gay students, leaders of the group said yesterday...
...young Lautenberg, he stresses, learned about capitalism while growing up in the back of a candy store, got a GI Bill education and launched a 30-year career in the gritty world of New Jersey industry, emerging as the millionaire chairman of the Board of Automatic Data Processing, one of the state's largest corporations. "I helped build a small company of five employees into one of 16,000." Lautenberg is fond of noting when discussing increases in unemployment attributed to Republican leadership...
...Maude De Victor, a Veterans Administration counselor, uncovered the potentially lethal effects of the herbicide Agent Orange an American GI's and almost lost her job. (Does this story sound familiar...