Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named after him. The trouble was that the street he wanted his name on was the one that runs in front of his Hollywood home. He tried last year, but his neighbors on Pyramid Place made such a fuss that an embarrassed public works committee tabled the idea. In Lake Forest, Calif., some 360 miles from Hollywood, officials were more sympathetic to Rudy's ambition. So now Lake Forest has a street called Rue de Vallee. The location: a trailer park. Vallee was only moderately pleased by the honor. "I need that street about like I need another nose...
...Viet Nam book for people who do not want to read about Viet Nam-the lip-service hawks and doves who don't know Quang Tri from An Giang and don't care how the war ends as long as it is soon. Fire in the Lake is about the nature of the Vietnamese character and its encounter with the West. In one form or other, scholars, journalists and Government officials have said most of what Frances FitzGerald has to say. But she may succeed better than they simply because she delves into culture, history and politics with...
FIRE IN THE LAKE...
...French impoverished the villages, the current war-particularly the U.S. pacification program-has practically decimated them. Almost a third of South Viet Nam's people are now refugees. The last part of Fire in the Lake describes the effect of uprooting on Vietnamese society. The moving of the population began in earnest in 1966. It aimed at depriving the enemy of sustenance or, as General Westmoreland's civilian deputy, Robert Komer, put it: "If we can attrit the population base of the Viet Cong, it'll accelerate the process of degrading...
Though Paul Mus thereafter became her inspiration in Asian studies, other things in her background pointed toward the five-year project she has just completed with Fire in the Lake. Her late father, CIA Deputy Director Desmond FitzGerald, was an old Southeast Asia hand who learned about the problems of working with Asian troops when he trained a Chinese unit to fight in Burma under General Joseph Stilwell. Says Frankie: "He never knew whether they would follow him into battle when he gave the order." Her mother, former U.N. Delegate Marietta Tree, contributed some nuggets of worldly observation: "Never mistake...