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...used to wage misdirected political wars. Scott A. Farber Boston Prisoner of the Nazis I was stunned to see the term "Polish labor camp" in the Milestone on the death of Navajo code talker Frank Sanache [Sept. 6]. The Nazis organized and ran the German concentration, labor and POW camps of World War II (including the one in what is now Poland where Sanache was imprisoned). We need to preserve the truth about atrocities committed by the Nazis instead of creating harmful stereotypes that involve Poland. Przemyslaw Grudzinski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the U.S. Washington...
...Kerry endured on his freshly shined national-security credentials from a Vietnam veterans' group independent of the Republican Party. The group began airing in three states a 60sec. ad claiming that Kerry had lied about his war record. But the move backfired when Senator John McCain, a former Vietnam POW and a keynote speaker at the upcoming Republican Convention, blasted the ad as "dishonest and dishonorable" and called on the Bush campaign to condemn it. White House spokesman Scott McClellan took issue only with the manner in which the ad was financed...
...happened--as Hollywood would have seen fit to script it--the only people aside from Reagan who really believed in Star Wars were the military leadership of the Soviet Union. The Zap! Pow! Bam! comic-book defense strategy reinforced Moscow's growing despair about the future and hastened the end of the cold war. And that, finally, is what has proved most galling to the Gipper's ideological opponents: his glossy Hollywood optimism proved more supple than the professional pessimism of the intellectual left. Ultimately, Reagan's sloppy and often insensitive domestic governance will have little impact on his place...
...happened-as Hollywood would have seen fit to script it-the only people aside from Reagan who really believed in Star Wars were the military leadership of the Soviet Union. The Zap! Pow! Bam! comic-book defense strategy reinforced Moscow's growing despair about the future and hastened the end of the cold war. And that, finally, is what has proved most galling to the Gipper's ideological opponents: his glossy Hollywood optimism proved more supple than the professional pessimism of the intellectual left. Ultimately, Reagan's sloppy and often insensitive domestic governance will have little impact on his place...
...want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda." DENNIS HASTERT, Speaker of the House, responding to Senator McCain's comment that there had been little U.S. sacrifice for the war in Iraq; McCain, a former POW, said he was referring to the fact that civilians have not been asked to sacrifice...