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...decision, Gore went to his parents' apartment on Capitol Hill. Albert Sr., 79, is a white-maned, honey-toned orator and liberal populist who, as a Senator from Tennessee from 1953 until 1971, was widely venerated for having been a progressive on civil rights and an opponent of the Viet Nam War. He was touted as a possible vice-presidential candidate in 1956 and 1960. When his father made the case for running, young Gore played a combination of Hamlet and devil's advocate, dwelling on the negatives. His mother Pauline moderated. "Dammit," said her husband afterward, "I think...
...Harvard in the late '60s, Gore demonstrated against the Viet Nam War and attended Eugene McCarthy rallies. After graduating, he considered resisting the draft. His parents were supportive. "If you want to go to Canada, I'll go with you," his mother said. The dilemma was all the more acute, for Gore did not want to hurt his father's 1970 re-election fight against Republican Bill Brock, currently Secretary of Labor. In the end, he enlisted as an Army reporter, and his father went down in defeat. "The combination of Viet Nam and his dad's losing really turned...
...business, but seems to spend less time solving crimes than caring for her Porsche and commiserating with girlfriends about the dating scene. It is no accident that this fall marks the debut of the first network series to deal with that formative experience for the baby-boom generation, the Viet...
Tour of Duty, CBS's ambitious Viet Nam series, should have been smarter and better timed. This cleaned-up-for-TV look at an American platoon in 1967 might have just passed muster a couple of years ago, before the recent surge of Hollywood interest in Viet Nam. After Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, it just won't do. When a battle-hardened sergeant (Terence Knox) grills a group of new recruits in search of "winners, survivors" for his platoon, he rules out marijuana users right away: "If you're smokin' dope and gettin' high, you're not listenin...
After overrunning South Viet Nam in 1975, the victorious Communist regime in the North assigned more than 100,000 vanquished southerners to indefinite sentences in "re-education" camps. Last week officials in Hanoi announced a sweeping amnesty for 6,685 inmates of the camps and other prisons, including 480 military and civilian officials of the former U.S.-backed Saigon government. The mass pardon was one of the largest since the end of the Viet...