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...program cannot be completely dismissed. It has marshaled its own cadre of authorities to help make a case that the Viet Nam series, among other things, inaccurately portrayed North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh as a benign nationalist rather than a ruthless Communist; denigrated the South Vietnamese government and people; overstated the extent of drug abuse and morale problems among U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; and underplayed the brutality of the Communist regimes that took over in Southeast Asia after the U.S. departure. The Inside Story analysis lends credence to some of these complaints, though it also points out several...
...market to promote global prosperity, and devoted much energy to denying that gargantuan U.S. budget deficits were damaging the world economy by keeping interest rates high and forcing up the value of the dollar. To some of the other summiteers, he seemed to be following a go-it-alone, nationalist line...
...somewhat muted form, there is as much ambivalence about Viet Nam among today's students as there was in the nation at large during the '60s. At the University of Colorado, Historian Robert Schulzinger observes, "As the war itself was divisive, its memory is divisive. You still have highly nationalist students who would try to do it again, only this time getting it right." But he also senses a "wistfulness" among other students for the glamour of antiwar activism...
...week. Based on unofficial exit & polls, however, Duarte's party appeared to have won 54% of the votes cast --enough for 32 or 33 Assembly seats, up from 24 in the previous Assembly. An estimated 37% of the ballots went to a coalition formed by the extreme right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by Duarte's nemesis, former Army Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, and the center-right National Conciliation Party. The rightist grouping is expected to take 22 to 25 seats; it previously held 33. The remaining seats will probably go to centrist and center-right splinter parties...
...city has gone from the nation's vacation and retirement capital to an international metropolis with a predominantly Latin beat. In a sense, its modern founder is Fidel Castro, whose Marxist revolution forced tens of thousands of rich and middle-class Cubans to flee to Florida. Like the Nationalist Chinese who retreated to Formosa, Miami's Cubans expected to return home but stayed to capitalize on their skills and energies. Another similarity to their Oriental counterparts is an active anti-Communism that has attracted steady U.S. Government support. According to the author, during the 1960s the CIA maintained its largest...