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Lehtinen has been under fire before. As a commander in Viet Nam in 1971, he was disfigured by shrapnel on the left side of his face and blinded in one eye. After 18 months and four operations to reconstruct his cheek and jaw, he went to Stanford Law, where he graduated first in his class. A Democrat until he changed parties in 1985, he served in the Florida legislature for nearly eight years. His conservative views impressed former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who appointed him to his present post...
...rainmaker" who drummed up merger deals for Wall Street's Drexel Burnham Lambert, stood out as one of the most colorful takeover specialists ever to don a power tie. Nicknamed "Mad Dog" for his courage under fire, he regaled friends with tales of his jungle-patrol days in Viet Nam. He talked of his Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and four Purple Hearts. He often told colleagues that he stood to inherit a multibillion-dollar fortune from the German brewery family of the same name...
...America enters the next decade, it does so with an appalling legacy of gun violence. The 1980s were tragic years that saw nearly a quarter of a million Americans die from handguns -- four times as many as were killed in the Viet Nam War. We began the decade by witnessing yet another President, Ronald Reagan, become a victim of a would-be assassin's bullet. That day my husband Jim, his press secretary, also became a statistic in America's handgun...
...merits only six pages at the book's close. Instead, Parmet paints Nixon as a regular guy, a mediator between the forces of welfare statism and cold war red bashing. Every rap against the former President -- from his 1952 slush fund to the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam -- is thoroughly ventilated and, in most cases, dismissed. Nixon, says Parmet, was merely a child of his times, who "harnessed the unease that lay just below the surface of celebratory blessings of the American existence." Nixon is more interesting than that. He deepened the unease, and in the end paid...
...prospects for peace in Cambodia were advanced on another front last week when Moscow confirmed reports that it has withdrawn most of its air forces from the military base at Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay. The move appeared to be aimed at cutting costs, pressuring the U.S. to reduce its military presence in the Pacific and, significant for Cambodia, improving relations with Beijing. The Cambodian conflict has in some ways been a proxy war between the Soviets, who back Hun Sen, and the Chinese, who support the resistance...