Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeager, 34; and Rutan's brother Burt, 43, who designed the plane. Burt Rutan, one of the U.S.'s most innovative designers, is president of his own firm, Rutan Aircraft Factory; Dick is a gaunt and prickly pilot par excellence, much decorated for his 325 combat missions in Viet Nam, who had been chafing as a test flyer for his younger brother; Yeager, Dick's constant companion, is a shy, petite former engineering-design draftsman who holds nine world flight records after just ten years at the controls. (She is no relation to Test Pilot Chuck Yeager, who went...
...issued a new account of dealings between two of his assistants and a former CIA agent working in Central America that revealed more extensive communications about the contras than were previously known. Donald Gregg, the Vice President's national security adviser, kept in touch % for years with his Viet Nam comrade Felix Rodriguez, who uses the nom de guerre Max Gomez. After helping Rodriguez in 1985 get a post advising the Salvadoran air force, Gregg talked periodically with him. Last August, Rodriguez informed Gregg that the efforts of the private groups supplying munitions to the rebels were failing. In October...
...Washington provided a broad mandate to investigate five areas, including the "provision or coordination of support for persons or entities engaged as military insurgents in armed conflict with the government of Nicaragua since 1984." The man they picked is Lawrence ("Ed") Walsh, 74, a former federal judge and Viet Nam peace negotiator. Born in Canada, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1922 and spent much of his private career with the Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. He is currently an attorney in Oklahoma City...
Margaret Randall has spent much of her life traveling. Her journeys as a writer, oral historian and left-wing activist have taken her to Mexico, North Viet Nam, Nicaragua and Cuba. Today she has settled in at the University of New Mexico as a teacher of American and women's studies. But if the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way, she may have a bit more traveling...
...fresh generation: the youngest member is 58, and the incoming General Secretary, Nguyen Van Linh, is 71. A former Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) party secretary, he has been identified with economic reform. Whether he can bring prosperity to his country is another matter. Several veteran Viet Nam observers believe that Hanoi's new leaders remain divided on the wisdom of adopting capitalist measures. Nor do these experts believe that the New Guard will alter the country's foreign policy course. Despite overtures from the Chinese, Viet Nam is expected to remain allied with the Soviet Union and to continue...