Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most prominent is Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, 43, a Marine who earned the Silver Star and two Purple Hearts -- among other medals -- in the Viet Nam War. He is deputy director for political-military affairs on the NSC. A close friend and military comrade of former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, North arouses strong emotions in people. "Nobody can be indifferent to Ollie," says the wife of a top foreign diplomat. "Either you love him, or you hate him with a passion...
...rather than his vocation. He seemed to serve neither Republican nor Democratic interests but the private party of his own views, establishing a consistent history of supporting civil rights, voting rights and arms control. He was one of the first Republicans to call for an end to the Viet Nam War, and he was the only Republican Senator to vote against the Reagan...
...Anderson's works, such as her two-evening epic United States, Parts I-IV (1983) or her 1985 stage show Home of the Brave, play off the television culture that gave them birth. Indeed, some avantgardists have made the television screen their preferred medium, like Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, who amasses hundreds of video monitors in assemblages. When Byrne, driving along the Texas highways in his red 1985 Chrysler Le Baron convertible in True Stories, turns to the camera and exclaims, "Radio reception is great here!" his excitement is real. Anyone born after 1950 understands the synergy...
...increased U.S. role in international affairs, they invoked the Red menace. It was an effective ploy, but it also proved to have unforeseen and cataclysmic consequences. In making their arguments, the sages of Foggy Bottom created a bogeyman fierce enough to frighten America into a war in Viet Nam that the Wise Men came to believe was unnecessary. Acheson was especially acerbic about the turn of events in Southeast Asia. His impression of Lyndon Johnson: "A real centaur -- part man, part horse's ass." Astute political history has rarely been this engaging and engrossing...
...Meanwhile, Vice President Bush was busy extricating himself from suspicions that he knew of the supply missions. In January 1985 Bush, a former CIA director, was introduced to Gomez by Donald Gregg, the Vice President's national security adviser, who had served with Gomez in counterinsurgency operations in Viet Nam. Gomez paid a second visit to Bush last May to talk about the military situation in El Salvador. "He never discussed Nicaragua with the Vice President at all," a Bush spokesman said...