Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Onetime liberal activists who learned grass-roots organizing for such causes as opposition to the Viet Nam War now employ these same techniques on behalf of business clients. Robert Beckel, Walter Mondale's campaign manager in 1984, has set up an organization with the grandiose title of the Alliance to Save the Ocean. Its aim is to stop the burning of toxic wastes at sea. Beckel's fee is being paid by Rollins Environmental Services, a waste-disposal company that burns toxic waste on land...
Various researchers have blamed youth suicides on such disparate causes as the Viet Nam War, television, the drug culture and stress generated by the sheer number of baby boomers. Los Angeles Clinical Psychologist Michael Peck suggests that in today's highly mobile families, the high rate of divorce and generally "less available parenting" have left adolescents with little emotional backup...
...returned to Southeast Asia to complete a European television documentary and a book. "I want to show the suffering of the Cambodian people," he explained after meeting Chen Ian, 12, whose parents were killed in a Vietnamese attack on their refugee camp. The latest rulers in Phnom-Penh, Viet Nam's puppet Heng Samrin government, are worse even than the Khmer Rouge in Ngor's view. "They kill all my people. They kill our nation. They kill Khmer culture," says the expatriate patriot with great anguish...
This week's trivia question comes from Harvard Sports Information Director Ed Markey, who asks, "What do the members of the Harvard basketball team and our soldiers in Viet Nam have in common?" Answer below...
...math because he knew he needed that for what he wanted to do." Smith graduated with honors, was voted Most Outstanding Senior by his classmates and won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He became a pilot and won a chestful of medals during the Viet Nam War. Smith flew 225 combat missions but was never injured, even though his plane was hit by ground fire several times. He later became a test pilot-instructor, did two carrier tours in the Mediterranean and in 1980 was picked for the space program...