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Since its opening in 1982, Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial has served as a stark scroll of remembrance, recording the names of 58,156 who died in that divisive war. Last week, as the U.S. honored its heroes on Veterans' Day, it was revealed that three men listed on the monument are still alive...
...Training Corps during his years at City College of New York, he joined the Army as a second lieutenant in 1958. Throughout his career he has shuttled easily between military outposts and Washington's corridors of power: he won the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart for service in Viet Nam, did a stint at OMB, commanded an infantry battalion in Korea, served as a Pentagon military assistant in both the Carter and Reagan administrations...
...unheroic age. Although historical operas are not unusual (Verdi's Don Carlos, for example), it is rare for a new work to treat personages of such recent vintage. The topic is resonant, for the former President still arouses potent emotions in those whose political consciousness was forged by Viet Nam, Kent State and Watergate. But the Minnesota-born Goodman was only ten years old when Nixon was elected and 16 when he resigned; now living in England, she brings a welcome apolitical detachment to her first major work...
...been done with the Silkworm that hit the Sea Isle City. Late in the week, however, Kuwaiti officials announced that they were setting up U.S.-made Hawk missile batteries on Failaka, where they will be close enough to Fao to interdict the Silkworms. The Kuwaitis have had the Viet Nam-era missiles since...
Take the 1973 prize, which was awarded to U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho for "negotiating an end to the war in Viet Nam." The pair had only signed a cease-fire, and a feeble one at that; word of the truce had ignited new fighting in Laos and Kampuchea. Tho refused to accept the award. Brotherhood did not even prevail on the Nobel Committee: two of its five members resigned in protest. Though the Kissinger- Tho pact removed American troops from combat, the war did not end until...