Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since its opening in 1982, Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial has served as a stark scroll of remembrance, recording the names of 58,156 who died in that divisive war. Last week, as the U.S. honored its heroes on Veterans' Day, it was revealed that three men listed on the monument are still alive...
...steps toward talks and paint the contras as "sons of Reagan." The propaganda strategy was effective. While Ortega actually achieved little beyond handing Obando a cease-fire proposal, which he could have done in Managua, he received considerable attention. The final masterstroke: a tour of the Lincoln and Viet Nam War memorials...
...empty tracts. (The resistance of Charleston, S.C., and Savannah to Great Society efforts to clear their slums accounts for those cities' remarkably intact historic districts today.) In the mid-'60s, 1,600 federally supported urban-renewal projects were under way in nearly 800 American cities. Not only in Viet Nam was the U.S. Government proposing to destroy the town in order to save...
...Corps during his years at City College of New York, he joined the Army as a second lieutenant in 1958. Throughout his career he has shuttled easily between military outposts and Washington's corridors of power: he won the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for service in Viet Nam, did a stint at OMB, commanded an infantry battalion in Korea, served as a Pentagon military assistant in both the Carter and Reagan administrations...
...unheroic age. Although historical operas are not unusual (Verdi's Don Carlos, for example), it is rare for a new work to treat personages of such recent vintage. The topic is resonant, for the former President still arouses potent emotions in those whose political consciousness was forged by Viet Nam, Kent State and Watergate. But the Minnesota-born Goodman was only ten years old when Nixon was elected and 16 when he resigned; now living in England, she brings a welcome apolitical detachment to her first major work...