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...deep sense of irony comes over Washington Correspondent Elaine Shannon when she reports, as she did for this week's cover stories, on the growing power of drug traffickers. "In the 1960s," she says, "my generation marched for civil rights and to end the Viet Nam War. We were well educated, open, idealistic, progressive." Then, she adds, "my generation discovered drugs. I saw friends die from overdoses, go to jail for drug peddling or, if they were lucky, just burn out." Shannon finds it especially painful that millions of peace-loving, privileged young Americans provide the revenues that have allowed...
...dispute took a nasty turn last month, when an anonymous letter sent to Bangkok newspapers suggested that U.S. soldiers stationed in Thailand during the Viet Nam War stole the sculpture, an allegation denied by U.S. officials. Last week a compromise seemed within reach: Art Institute officials said they are considering a proposal to hand over the carving in exchange for another Thai artifact...
...Moscow wants to quit a war that has claimed as many as 30,000 Soviet and more than 1 million Afghan lives, and sent at least 3 million Afghans fleeing to Pakistan and Iran. But Gorbachev's unstated goal -- strikingly similar to the Nixon Administration's declared policy in Viet Nam -- seems to be two-pronged: not merely to pull out Soviet troops but also to prolong the life of the Soviet-installed government of Najibullah, also known as Najib, the former secret police chief who took power...
...said that Hunter S. Thompson held a celebration the night J. Edgar Hoover died in the early '70's. Others joined Thompson in their condemnation of Hoover's unwarranted investigations, which included the harassment of Viet Nam protesters, civil rights activists--including Martin Luther King, whose phones were tapped for years--and anyone else with the wrong politics...
...only charge any of the hundreds of organizations and thousands of people watched by the bureau are guilty of is their disagreement with U.S. policy in Central America. Though some people would like to think so, this is no crime, just as protesting the Viet Nam war was no crime...