Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alongside Superman these days is a revitalized phalanx of old superfolk -- Batman, Spider- Man, Wonder Wom- an -- and a host of newer, more ambivalent heroes, such as Viet Nam Soldier Ed Marks and the sultry Elektra, a machine- gun-toting assassin. The proliferation of new wonderfigures is impressive: some 250 different comic-book titles, largely in the heroic vein, will be sold in the U.S. this year, up from about 190 in 1985. With a combined circulation of roughly 150 million, the comics are more popular than at any other time since the early '50s. That in turn means heftier...
...river to Manhattan, is not remembered so clearly. The only daughter of a civil engineer, she grew up middle class; she is backyard-wise, not streetwise. Giacalone was an anomaly in the neighborhood; she wanted to go to college. At New York University she protested against the Viet Nam War, but was otherwise apolitical. Even though she opted for law school at N.Y.U., she was never sure that she wanted to be a lawyer. Later, while in Washington with the Justice Department's tax division, she began to do some work with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York...
...young Russian revolutionary named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin moved from Paris to Poland. While working at the Renault auto plant, Chou met a compatriot, Deng Xiaoping, China's present ruler, and together they founded a branch of the Chinese Communist youth organization. One of their contemporaries in Paris was Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
...Viet Nam settled uneasily into memory. The first sign that the war was not over came in 1977 with the birth of Elmo Russell Zumwalt IV. The boy's slow development was eventually attributed to "sensory integration dysfunction," an inability to discriminate sounds and sights. Then, in 1982, Elmo III learned he had cancer of the lymphatic system. Two years later he had developed Hodgkin's disease, a more aggressive form of lymphoma...
...admiral occasionally pulls rank and echoes broadsides from his memoir. He rehashes service politics, finds the racial attitudes of the previous Chief of Naval Operations contemptible, and the Viet Nam War "worse than futile": "The Navy men killed in the river war meant a proportionately greater saving of lives for the Army and the accelerated pacification of the delta. But all that was accomplished for nothing, so all these soldiers and sailors died in vain." Bitter truth does not come easily to him; the Naval Academy did not teach no-win decision making...