Word: giap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visits former battlefields and old soldiers, including Vo Nguyen Giap, the masterful North Vietnamese general. Safer is not awed by legends carved in brass: "The trouble with generals is that they live in the big picture, and Giap, I decide, is a perfect example. Utterly brainwashed by ambition." TV commentator Bill Moyers, formerly L.B.J.'s press secretary, is still "the sometimes overly pious public defender of liberal virtue." Safer also resents coziness between politics and press, the most blatant example being Vietnamese journalist Pham Xuan An. He worked two jobs: one as a reporter in Saigon for TIME, the other...