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...most prominent is Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, 43, a Marine who earned the Silver Star and two Purple Hearts -- among other medals -- in the Viet Nam War. He is deputy director for political-military affairs on the NSC. A close friend and military comrade of former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, North arouses strong emotions in people. "Nobody can be indifferent to Ollie," says the wife of a top foreign diplomat. "Either you love him, or you hate him with a passion...
...avocation rather than his vocation. He seemed to serve neither Republican nor Democratic interests but the private party of his own views, establishing a consistent history of supporting civil rights, voting rights and arms control. He was one of the first Republicans to call for an end to the Viet Nam War, and he was the only Republican Senator to vote against the Reagan...
...increased U.S. role in international affairs, they invoked the Red menace. It was an effective ploy, but it also proved to have unforeseen and cataclysmic consequences. In making their arguments, the sages of Foggy Bottom created a bogeyman fierce enough to frighten America into a war in Viet Nam that the Wise Men came to believe was unnecessary. Acheson was especially acerbic about the turn of events in Southeast Asia. His impression of Lyndon Johnson: "A real centaur -- part man, part horse's ass." Astute political history has rarely been this engaging and engrossing...
...unheeded. Meanwhile, Vice President Bush was busy extricating himself from suspicions that he knew of the supply missions. In January 1985 Bush, a former CIA director, was introduced to Gomez by Donald Gregg, the Vice President's national security adviser, who had served with Gomez in counterinsurgency operations in Viet Nam. Gomez paid a second visit to Bush last May to talk about the military situation in El Salvador. "He never discussed Nicaragua with the Vice President at all," a Bush spokesman said...
...about one another. Father Henry is a shrimper whose feelings for his family are well disguised with verbal and physical abuse. His wife Lila despises his brutality and low status and dreams of moving up in Colleton society. Eldest Son Luke, the Rambo of the salt marshes, returns from Viet Nam to wage a one- man guerrilla war against the construction of plutonium production plants. Brother Tom is an ex-high school football coach struggling with the aftermath of a nervous breakdown and a failing marriage. His twin sister Savannah is a successful poet and, fortunately, a failed suicide...