Word: nams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe Director Francis Coppola should not have bragged to everyone that he was making the definitive film of the Viet Nam War with Apocalypse Now [Aug. 27]. Maybe he was his own worst p.r. man. But what he did do was create one helluva tremendous cinema experience that stunned me and many others into silence. The film, like the war, is overpowering, brutal, unrelenting, spectacular. Who cares if Coppola had second thoughts about the ending? Did the war itself end as we Americans planned...
...least ten years ago that U.S. intelligence first got an inkling that a Soviet combat unit might possibly be in Cuba. But the nation was embroiled in the Viet Nam War, and intelligence was largely focused on Southeast Asia; Cuba had low priority. After the war, intelligence operations were reassigned both in the field and in Washington, where it takes many people and much equipment to sort out incoming information. Cuba watching was increased, but not significantly. Even so, evidence emerged confirming the presence of a mysteriously active Soviet headquarters...
...weeklong sixth summit of nonaligned nations. As host of the conference, Castro was seen and photographed with a wide variety of Third World leaders, ranging from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87 - the last surviving co-founder of the nonaligned movement - to Communist fellow travelers like Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to such obscure eminences as Bhutan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuk. Castro and his aides orchestrated the arrival of celebrities well: one of the few discordant notes was struck by a brass band that mistakenly played the Egyptian national anthem as Castro greeted Iraq...
...many others castigated the "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers," a new edition of a bestselling history, the Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti Rise of the American Nation, speaks primly of "Radical Republicans" who were "influenced by a sincere feeling of obligation to the freed slaves." A few post-Viet Nam texts note the use of torture by U.S. soldiers in the Philippines in 1899, a subject never mentioned before...
...oddly, the U.S. probably seemed more decadent, or at any rate, considerably more disturbed, eight or ten years ago than it does now. In the midst of the Viet Nam War, the ghetto riots, the assassinations, the orgasmic romanticism of the counterculture, the national rage was more on the surface...