Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will the country be if we ever face a crisis again? We'll have a heck of a time getting people to fight, and other countries know this." But many draft resisters, slipping into their 30s, also sense their communities' distaste, the snarls of veterans from the nation's more straightforward wars. Still, this month brought at least a modest symbol of reconciliation when Robert Garwood, the Marine private who spent the past 14 years in Viet Nam and may be formally charged with collaborating with the enemy, came home to Greensburg, Ind. His townspeople carefully refrained...
...vets, one of the war's most troublesome legacies is a pervasive disenchantment, unregistered by statistics and unsolved by legislative programs. It is caused by the feelings that the service they rendered was meaningless and the nation's anguish and anger over Viet Nam were transferred unfairly to them. Not long ago, a Viet Nam veteran in Minneapolis was asked if there was anything he would particularly like to say to Max Cleland when the VA chief arrived in the city for a scheduled visit. The vet brooded for a moment, then replied, half sardonically, half plaintively...
...Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and Amnesty International have issued protests against the Iranian trials. No complaints have been registered by any Islamic nation. Until last week, the Carter Administration had refrained from comment, apparently concerned that criticism might endanger the lives of the 3,200 Americans still living in Iran. But after U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan returned to Washington for consultation-expectations are that he will be replaced and a new ambassador named this week-the State Department issued a guarded statement about "the executions of persons who are apparently denied internationally accepted standards of justice...
Entire families, including mothers with their children and nurses, con verged on Paris' Place de la Revolution (now the Place de la Concorde) to see the spectacle. After the blade fell, an executioner displayed the severed head of the King to the crowd. Shouts of "Vive la nation!" rang out. Louis' tricornered hat was auctioned from the scaffold and Ms hair and hair ribbon were also sold by the executioner's aide. Some people took home hand kerchiefs and scraps of paper dipped in the King's blood as souvenirs. Many danced around the guillotine, singing...
Somoza's critics now include a majority of the nation's businessmen; they claim that none of this would have happened if the Carter Administration had more forcefully pressed the dictator to step down. They point out that U.S. Marines were instrumental in installing the Somoza family in power 46 years ago. In light of that, they charge, Washington should have gone well beyond the cutoff of economic and military assistance that the Carter Administration ordered after Somoza last January rejected an American proposal for a plebiscite to determine his government's future. "Such sanctions have...