Word: indochina
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Last week Nachtwey accepted the Overseas Press Club's (O.P.C.) Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photography of both combatants and civilians in Nicaragua and Lebanon. The award, named after the famed LIFE photographer who died in 1954 in Indochina, is one of the most prestigious in photojournalism because it is given for overseas reporting "requiring exceptional courage and enterprise...
...still need 1969's students' refusal to become part of a system designed to keep control of people's lives--by promoting insidious racial and sexual distinctions, by making concessions on minor points, by all the marketing techniques made possible by modern technology, and ultimately, as in Indochina, by killing people who insist on resisting. That's why it's still important to understand the real issues of 1969. The lawlessness and violence liberals complained of came mostly from the administration and the police, but even if that hadn't been so, laying exclusive stress on it would obscure...
Each inhabits his own singular combat zone. Yet a provocative phrase cropped up in news reports: "Not since the end of the war in Viet Nam. . ." Some of the analogies were impressionistic and wrong: the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean are not Indochina. But some of the bench marks were plain, blunt facts. Not since Viet Nam, until Beirut, had so many U.S. servicemen been killed in a single day. Not since then, until Grenada, had U.S. servicemen launched a combat operation of such size. Not since then, until a Navy A-6 was shot down over Lebanon...
...protest for those to the South because we Americans have great compassion for the wretchedly poor of the region and war is no resolution for poverty. Perhaps it is because we are involved in a region where indigenous revolutionary forces will eventually work their will, as they did in Indochina, regardless of the role and the power of the United States...
...fighters and bombers grounded, its guns silenced, and its soldiers withdrawn from battlefields, America last week ceased waging war in Indochina for the first time in nearly a decade. At midnight on Tuesday (Washington, D.C., time) all U.S. combat activity ended. It was one of the great anticlimaxes in the nation's history. There were no speeches, no celebrations, not even among the professional pilots who had been finally the only ones left to carry...