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...other current concern which Joel chooses to patronize is the plight of the Vietnam War veterans. In "Goodnight Saigon," he launches into a sappy, unoriginal tribute to motors, rotors, lost friends and chilling war memories. "Our arms were heavy, but our bellies were tight," he croons. Between the beginning and ending sounds of a helicopter, courtesy of a synthesizer, Joel shows his desperation for relevance by trying to conjure up vivid, fresh images. After commenting on how "we played our Doors tapes" which shows that he saw Apocalypse Now before creating this song. Joel dramatically declares. "And it was dark...
Since that first week in early June when the Israeli military machine smashed its way to the gates of Beirut, life in the city had been harrowing. "There were bad moments, worse than anything I can remember during Viet Nam," said Stewart, who was TIME'S acting Saigon bureau chief in 1972. "I felt like a hunted animal, as if the shells and bombs seemed to follow me across the city." On one occasion, a bomb hit his apartment; on another, explosions pulverized his neighborhood. Two weeks before the final ceasefire, an explosion ripped through the floor where...
When he left, finally satiated with jets, Communist officials and media ministars ("The big stars are the nicest," says Manning), he was hailed quietly by Presidents, press secretaries and correspondents. Whether in Saigon or Peking, when the frazzled White House party wearily touched foreign ground, there was Manning standing as comfortably and solidly as the Washington Monument. "Where y'all been?" he would ask Barbara Walters or Dan Rather. Manning, of course, had already tamed the natives and educated them in the ways of the American media. He was calm and shrewd and as smooth as sour mash from...
...Westmoreland was shown apparently acknowledging awareness of a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington at which military officers allegedly pared down enemy troop estimates to stay be low a ceiling of 300,000. But Westmoreland's remarks were directed to an entirely different meeting that took place in Saigon. For his part, the general has claimed that he was sandbagged by Wal lace and Crile, that he was not informed in detail about what he would be asked until he arrived in New York City for an interview, and that, unprepared, he was confronted by Wallace, the beneficiary...
...visited several times in the White House by God. As Ronnie Dugger reports in this scrupulous, generally disapproving account of the 36th President's rise to power, the Creator would appear around 2 or 3 a.m. when Johnson received his daily reports from the U.S. embassy in Saigon. Dugger does not disclose what the Commander in Chief was told by his Commander in Chief, but he does recount that on one occasion Johnson "prayed on his knees for an hour and a half, and he said how goddamn sore his knees...