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Written and directed by Oliver Stone
WRITER MICHAEL HERR finished up his psychedelic memoir of the Vietnam War, Dispatches, with an odd chant: "Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there." He was wrong. If it was anything like what is depicted in Oliver Stone's Platoon, we had no idea.
Oliver Stone's previous film was Salvador, an indictment of American involvement in Central America, made with equal skill. It failed at the box office: no one wanted to view our current indiscretions. Although we have come a long way in our intellectual understanding of what happened in Vietnam, there...
The report doesn't establish how much money was actually diverted from the arms sales to the Contras or whether Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, the White House aide who was the purported engineer of the diversion, was acting alone or with orders from above, NBC said.
If Aquino's stunning rise allowed the world a rare chance to suspend its disbelief and exult, 1986 also gave it many more familiar opportunities to distrust its leaders and to weep. Late in the year, the Reagan Administration was suddenly shaken by the disclosure that it had been covertly...