Word: nams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return to realism," says Secretary of Defense Harold Brown of the awakening American attitude toward our strength. We drifted in the years after Viet Nam, embarrassed by power. The Soviets did nothing of the sort. By the early 1980s the U.S.S.R. will probably have caught up with us in almost every modern military category. Their research into new weapons of terror, though now behind ours, will perhaps exceed our own because of the sheer concentration of effort...
Voight's performance is a disappointment after his realistic portrayal of a Viet Nam vet in Coming Home. The champ should be a sweet, dumb lug, but Voight comes off as an actor playing a sweet, dumb lug. He affects a Sylvester Stallone accent, clouds his face with introspective pain and is not for a second convincing...
...commercial pressure from network higher-ups. But he won journalistic respect for his tough, sometimes prickly defense of CBS News against pressure not only from the network's own entertainment-first programmers, but also from White House officials who were outraged over coverage of Watergate and the Viet Nam War. One of his greatest regrets, says Salant, was authorizing payment of a reported $50,000 to ex-Nixon Aide H.R. (Bob) Haldeman in 1975 for two hour-long-and unilluminating-interviews...
...about dioxin. Thomas Whiteside, a British-born journalist who writes regularly in The New Yorker, is not. Whiteside's early articles on dioxin started a move that led, back in 1970, to a ban on the practice of spraying herbicides containing the substance on the jungles of Viet Nam. His newest book may help to create a climate for domestic restrictions. Such action seems appropriate. Everything that is known about dioxin, associated with skin eruptions, liver damage, cancers, mental problems, miscarriages and birth defects, suggests that it may be even better at killing animals and people than at killing...
...Pendulum does not create a soothing rhythm in the mind; it sounds with the terrible urgency of a time bomb. The explosion is near, says Whiteside, the message is clear. The U.S. has already seen what dioxin has done to Viet Nam. There is no earthly reason for Americans to keep bringing the war home...