Word: indochina
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...Choices. But the Spirit of '76 is celebration, not cerebration. If to cynics the bombardment seems excessive -jingoistic and ingenuous at best, at worst grossly exploitative-Americans should nonetheless take heart from it. Only five years ago, in protest against the U.S. involvement in Indochina, the flag was being burned, burlesqued and spat upon. Today many of the selfsame Americans who chose then to disown their flag are hoisting it high. In a republic, the flag-not a royal family or the trophies of empire-represents in graphic form the experiences and beliefs of its people. As Woodrow Wilson...
...growing conflict between rich and poor nations; Photographer Dirck Halstead, for his color treatment of new international beauties; and Photographer Ken Regan, for his color photos of Boxer Chuck Wepner. The Newspaper Guild of New York also presented TIME itself with an award for the outstanding quality of its Indochina reporting last year...
...high-school English teacher from Chicago wrote Bryan. And, she added, in a theme echoed by others, "I'm ashamed that I didn't do more." A New York man wrote that Bryan's articles had "penetrated the confusion and shame which prevented me from thinking about the Indochina War." A woman from Pennsylvania wanted to write the Mullens; she explained that she had lost her job in part because she wore a black armband to work to protest against the war. Another woman from Montpelier, Vermont, wrote simply, "Thank you for the Mullen's story," as if the rage...
...Solzhenitsyn's declaration that in the past two years "terrible things have happened." The West, he claimed, "has given up not only four, five or six countries, it has given up all its world positions." He cited the "loss of freedom" in Angola and the Communist victory in Indochina as examples of the West's loss of nerve and spiritual strength. Moral considerations, he charged, have no bearing on politics in the West. "One should not consider that the great principles of freedom terminate at one's own frontiers," he said. "No! Freedom is indivisible...
...sober observers of world affairs are not likely to fall under his spell. Example: Sovietologist Richard Lowenthal has sorrowfully expressed his amazement at Solzhenitsyn's "utter disaccord with the facts of recent international history." Lowenthal points out that not all defeats for the West, as for instance in Indochina, are caused by surrender to the Soviet Union-or China-but can be the result of local forces. Moreover, he feels it would be "criminally irresponsible" for the U.S. to refuse communication with the U.S.S.R. as Solzhenitsyn desires, "for communication is the only way to control the risk of total...