Word: indochina
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Presidents have used maps on TV before. John Kennedy and Richard Nixon pointed to the political borders and battlefronts of Indochina as they briefed the nation on their policies toward Laos and Cambodia, respectively. But Kennedy and Nixon were used to thinking and talking geopolitically. Their careers took shape in the 1950s, when the entire globe was starkly and simplistically color-coded to differentiate the free world from the Communist bloc, and when America's unquestioned obligation was to keep the Red stain from spreading...
Hundreds of thousands of Americans went halfway around the world to search and destroy rebels in the jungles in Indochina. These are the veterans whose existence so harshly intrudes on our vague historical reflections about Veterans Day. Their presence somehow goes against the grain of America's feelings about her other wars. Their reality explodes the myth we once held of Right vs. Wrong, Good vs. Bad, Us vs. Them. All peoples cherish this myth, the notion that in the scales of universal justice and morality their struggle, their existence, their purpose is justified and vindicated. All peoples need...
...carpet treatment, the President's wife spent the bulk of her visit touring a series of relief centers devoted to the three different kinds of refugees created by Indochina's overlapping, unending wars: Cambodians, Laotians and the primarily Vietnamese "boat people." Her first stop was Sakaew, a center housing Cambodians 40 miles from the border. Rosalynn spent two hours at the camp, where more than 35,000 refugees were packed in makeshift lean-tos made of cloth, woven fiber and plastic sheeting spread out over 33 acres of clay like soil. During a briefing in a tent...
DIED. Edward Ardizzone, 79, children's book illustrator and author who created the popular Little Tim storybook series; in London. Born in Haiphong, in what was then French Indochina, but reared in England, Ardizzone, whose style has been likened to Hogarth's and Rowlandson's, served as an official combat artist during World War II, before returning with pen and brush to less serious fare. He illustrated nearly 100 children's books; Magic Carpet, one of his best-known paintings, was reproduced by UNICEF for its collection of international Christmas cards...
Reagan attacked the "Vietnam syndrome," saying reaction to the U.S. involvement in Indochina has led some liberals to oppose confronting "Communist aggression" ever again...