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SHOOTER (NBC, Aug. 8, 9 p.m. EDT). They also served who only took the % pictures. TIME Photographer David Hume Kennerly was co-writer of this TV movie about combat photographers in Viet...
Such philosophic fuzziness is shrewd politics. But it suggests that the Democrats have lost the will to define themselves. After the agonizing reappraisals of the Great Society and the divisiveness of Viet Nam, is there a soul to the Democratic Party? Is there a coherent ideology to replace the promise-them-anything, interest-group liberalism that animated the party from F.D.R. to Walter Mondale? Or, after two straight tidal-wave defeats, have the Democrats extinguished their spark in a belated effort to adapt to the Age of Reagan...
...states, hard to dramatize, but for that reason amenable to sustained argument of the sort Dukakis is good at. On the other, emotional issues of the time, Dukakis voted "correctly" for a liberal. After all, in Massachusetts even Republican Governor Sargent signed a law challenging the constitutionality of the Viet Nam War. But Dukakis did not march or protest. He agreed with most of the goals, but did not think "demonstrating" an effective tool. Emotional binges are like staying up all night -- they throw one's schedule off. Vote, if that will do it; argue, if you have...
Never let it be said that Prince Norodom Sihanouk is reluctant to change his $ mind. In January he suddenly resigned as leader of a guerrilla coalition that is battling Kampuchea's Vietnamese-backed government; the next month he just as abruptly resumed his post. After Viet Nam stepped up its troop withdrawal from Kampuchea, ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to be host to peace talks in Djakarta next week between the warring sides. But then Sihanouk, who ruled Kampuchea (then called Cambodia) until 1970, quit his job again...
...most important distinction between Dukakis and Bush is over the rules that should govern America's commitments abroad. Ever since Viet Nam, Democratic Party activists have increasingly been drawn toward neoisolationism, as expressed by George McGovern's exhortation "Come home, America," while Republican activists have tended toward a unilateralist policy, symbolized by Reagan's call for America to "stand tall." Dukakis takes a third approach: he calls himself a "multilateralist." In other words, he portrays himself as part of the once dominant bipartisan consensus that favored asserting American influence through alliances, treaty organizations, economic partnerships and the United Nations...