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...Viet Nam reverberated through the nation's life as profoundly as the Civil War and the Depression did. It was the formative, defining event for the largest generation of Americans ever, and it divided that generation in ways that will be felt for years. The war deflected and thwarted what might otherwise have been the productive idealism of the enormous baby-boom generation...
Ordinarily, every young man must spend at least three years in the military. The army, 1.2 million strong, is the world's fourth largest (after the Soviet Union, China and the U.S.). Some 160,000 Vietnamese troops occupy Kampuchea. Nguyen Ba Mai is a deserter from the occupation force, who is now living in Thailand. "In Viet Nam," he says, "whenever you talk, you have to beware of spies...
...Less than ten minutes after takeoff, an elderly woman sitting near him commented that they had 13 more hours of flying time. It began to dawn on Lewis that he might have taken a slight detour. Some 13,000 miles later, after spending twelve hours in New Zealand's largest city, he arrived back in Los Angeles. Lewis, an ingenuous though perhaps a bit flighty student at Sacramento City College, is having his moment in the media sun. He has appeared on the Tonight show ("Auckland is a really nice city," he told Johnny, describing his bus tour...
With the speed of a Tomahawk missile, the charges of improper billings against General Dynamics, the nation's largest defense contractor, continue to mount. Last week the Pentagon announced that a team of 20 auditors had determined that the company had overcharged the Government by $244 million during the past twelve years for "overhead" and administrative costs. The Pentagon has already withheld $120 million in payments and intends to demand the additional $124 million "to adequately protect the Government's interest." The new figures represent another disclosure in a spreading investigation that has turned up such charges to the Government...
...remove a blockage caused by the first procedure. He seemed on his way to recovery once more, when another problem arose: internal hemorrhaging. He was rushed from the capital, Brasilia, for a third operation, at the Heart Institute of Sao Paulo's Hospital das Clinicas, one of the largest and best-equipped such centers in South America...