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...recalls the funk and disillusion that followed World War I. Someone has suggested that the U.S. after Saigon fell was something like Germany after 1918. The analogy, farfetched and literally false, contains a touch of truth. World War I was hard to beat as an example of dunderheaded, pointless slaughter. The men who fought it hated it just as much?and even in the same vocabularies?as the men who fought in Viet Nam. They went into it with the same illusions: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Horace told the boys in the public schools. John Wayne played...
...only a suggestion of surf, and the beaches were crowded. Suddenly, unaccountably, the Christians and Muslims both began to shell the area. The carnage: 20 dead and 270 wounded. How have the 1 million Beirutis been coping with the relentless destruction of their once beautiful city and the periodic slaughter of their people? Reports TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart...
...John B. Slaughter, director of the National Science Foundation, at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles: "A recent survey by the National Science Foundation found that 86% of adults believe scientific discoveries are largely responsible for our standard of living in the U.S., and 81% believe new discoveries will make our lives healthier and more comfortable. However, 86% feel that most citizens are not sufficiently informed to help set goals for scientific research, and 85% believe that most citizens are not sufficiently informed to choose which technologies to develop. I am troubled by this public reluctance to participate...
February 24--Black students hold a "mill-in" at University Hall to urge President Bok to divest Harvard's holding in Gulf Oil, which they say "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans" by its investments in the former Portuguese colony of Angola...
Viet Nam still chokes Americans. The nation will not recover from it, or learn from all of that slaughter and guilt, until it acknowledges that the men who fought the nation's first teen-age war (average age: 19.2 years) did not cook up that war themselves in a mischievous moment. That was all of America out there. "It was a collective enterprise," says Dr. Egendorf, "and we were all damaged by it. A family melodrama is still going on. Sometimes a psychologist cannot treat the individual alone; he must see the whole family together...