Word: homefront
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cubans as surrogates to interfere in "the internal affairs of Africa." Zbigniew Brzezinski has denounced the Cubans as "international marauders" who are doing the Kremlin's dirty work in the Third World. But Premier Fidel Castro's escalating military involvement in Africa has some homegrown and homefront benefits, as TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott discovered on an eleven-day visit to Cuba. His report...
...game simulates soccer. For would-be Andrettis, there is Indy 500 (list price: $130), which comes with a vrooming sound track that may make parents wish the children were watching Captain Kangaroo. The Fairchild Video Entertainment System ($ 150 for the basic unit, $20 for cartridges containing additional games) enables homefront Pattons and Rommels to blast the bejabers out of whippet tanks in the desert; or lets the player be a skeet shooter; or pits blackjack skills against an electronic dealer who tots up bucks lost or won, keeps track of the bets and will advance credit if somebody goes broke...
...cookies. I had become a non-entity, and conformity was to blame. In desperation I struggled to piece back together the confident me, the California me. But it was too late. My concerted efforts in the adaptation process had failed miserably. My only recourse was to return to the homefront to regain my senses. Back to California, my natural habitat...
That, of course, was hyperbole-soon echoed by Vice President Agnew. He charged that "homefront snipers" had "falsely stereotyped" U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam as "drug addicts and coldblooded criminals." Agnew also argued that "the rather abnormal fears and the conditions in a military operation are not subject to Monday-morning quarterback judgment by someone sitting comfortably in an office in Washington." Applied to Galley, that principle ignores the fact that the jurors who convicted Galley had all served in combat...