Word: sheehans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Central Connecticut won the 36-hole match with 617 strokes and thus qualified for the NCAA tournament. Hartford, stroking 632, and Yale, with 646 strokes, finished second and third respectively. Stroking 153, Hartford's Pat Sheehan was the tournament's medalist...
...Sheehan also castigated American leaders of the time for their misguided yet rigid conviction that superior U.S. fire power could crush a popular insurgency in a prolonged war of attrition...
...Minh had no way of being seen as who he was, a communist and a nationalist," Sheehan said...
...Sheehan told the audience, comprised of students, professors, relatives and a sprinkling of Vietnam veterans, that the war helped expose a dichotomy in the American mindset...
...Sheehan said many mainstream reporters covering the war thought they could have an impact on decision-makers by writing the truth about the war. But the problem lay not only in the levels of bureaucracy which distanced politicians from the realities of jungle warfare in Vietnam, as the reporters thought, but with the leaders themselves, Sheehan said...