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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schism has developed at the Pentagon. Publicly the warriors fall in loyally behind Jimmy Carter, but privately some of them decry his disarmament crusade, believing that at times his fervor to reduce weapons makes him unheeding of the nuclear statistics, which the Soviets have altered in these ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: It Began with a Cigarette | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...Administration has insisted that such steps are unnecessary because the U.S. has the ability to detect Soviet cheating. Said a senior official at the Pentagon: "I have not the slightest doubt that we'll soon be substantially back to where we were before the loss of the Iranian sites." The official agrees that the Soviets might get away with one more missile than the 2,250 allowed under SALT II, but "this wouldn't be militarily significant. But if they deployed an extra 100, we'd quickly know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Some Pepper for SALT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...message is a world away from Coming Home. The vets echoed the criticism of many old antiwar activists, who regard Cimino's cartoon treatment of the Vietnamese (played in the movie, incidentally, by Thais) as screaming sadists, much given to atrocity. Fonda called The Deer Hunter "a racist, Pentagon version of the war" -a judgment she reached without having seen the movie. Gloria Emerson, who covered the war for the New York Times and wrote a phosphorescently indignant book called Winners and Losers, declared last week: "Cimino has cheapened and degraded and diminished the war as no one else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

More and more examinations of the war are also being published. The best of the war novels and memoirs, in many ways, is Michael Herr's Dispatches (1977). Herr, who spent a year in Viet Nam covering the war for Esquire, writes prose that resembles some weapon the Pentagon developed especially for Viet Nam-hallucinatory, menacing, full of anxiety, death and a stunning, offhanded sort of accuracy. Herr is a writer with the talent of a smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...sitters. So Richard dutifully quit his job once more. In increasingly liberated America, househusbands are becoming an accepted part of life. But in the macho world of the military, Richard is an unassimilable anomaly: as far as his military neighbors were concerned, he might as well have bartered away Pentagon secrets. Explains Richard: "The husbands won't talk to me, because I do 'womanly' things and they work." And their wives are no more sympathetic, barely acknowledging his presence when he does the family wash in the basement laundry of the military apartment complex where the Venemas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Army Husband | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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