Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energy in the '60s. The war and the counterculture could at certain moments seem part of the same rock 'n' roll, drawing their energy from one dark circuit. Grunts in Viet Nam sometimes carried their tape players into firefights. They would listen to the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs...
...Republican Senator William Cohen: "The legacy of Viet Nam does not mean that we will not send our sons anywhere. It does mean that we will not send them everywhere." Even some fervent doves agree that memories of Viet Nam should not keep the U.S. from ever fighting anywhere. Sam Brown, onetime antiwar leader who now develops low-cost housing in Colorado, remains convinced that if it were not for the protests against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam that he helped organize, "we would have three or four other wars now." Even so, concedes Brown, some "wrong lessons" might...
Ronald Reagan came into office fervently embracing the notion that Uncle Sam should take off his coat and tie, roll up his sleeves and actively oppose Soviet henchmen in the back alleys of the world. Reagan's motivation was quite explicitly connected with Viet Nam. He felt it was high time to demonstrate that the U.S. had recovered from the paralysis and pessimism caused by the trauma of the only war it ever lost...
When parliament convenes later this month, the N.K.D.P., guided by Kim Young Sam and Kim Dae Jung, South Korea's top antigovernment leaders, will thus have the clout to block constitutional amendments, bring no-confidence motions against Cabinet ministers and call emergency sessions of parliament. The consolidation will make it virtually impossible for President Chun Doo Hwan's ruling Democratic Justice Party to play opposition groups off against one another...
...comparison. Climcal direction and Monday Night at the Movies screenwriting damn Mask into an abyss of sloppiness and unprofessionalism from which it is redeemed only by Eric Stoltz's tour-deforce in the title role and superb performances by Cher as Rocky's wackedout but tenderhearted Mom and Sam Elliott as her off-again, on-again biker boyfriend...