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Viet Nam was different from other wars; that difference defines the distinctive isolation and grievance of many Viet Nam veterans. Douglas MacArthur warned against an Asian land war; he was right. There were no front lines. Reality tended to melt into layers of unknowability. The same person could be a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Warriors | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

Graham's ministry, as his critics have emphasized, became utterly entangled with the powers of this earth. He was close to Richard Nixon for years, but at last grew retchingly ill when he read the transcripts of the White House tapes. After much puzzlement, he blamed Nixon's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Country-Grown Candide | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

In offering its services to the NSA recruiters (off campus or on), Harvard only routinely fulfills its role as the Number One think tank and training ground for the U.S. ruling class. Recruiters for the Navy and the Marines will be on campus on February 22 and 23, interviewing prospective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The NSA And Harvard | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Nevertheless, a consideration of these propositions and their implications--wearisome though it may seem, irritating though it may be to politicians who prefer to join one of the Kent State jurors in talking of the need to go back to "normal life"--is the only proper response to last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calley, Kent State | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

I reject-and Calley does too, now-the philosophy that in our technological system we are less responsible for My Lais. I say, quite dissimilarly, that in our system human beings are intolerable intrusions that-by inches usually, or with dispatch, as at My Lai-we choose to eliminate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1973 | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

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