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Generals and admirals for centuries have been notorious for planning to fight the last war. American military men are no different; for 45 years they have prepared for a Soviet version of the blitzkrieg. Panama, Grenada, Libya, even Korea and Viet Nam were all essentially sideshows. The Big One, if it ever came, would begin with the Warsaw Pact's tank and armored columns charging across the Fulda Gap into West Germany, starting a conflict that could escalate to a nuclear Armageddon. The effort to deter or defeat a Soviet invasion of Western Europe shaped almost everything about...
Lehtinen has been under fire before. As a commander in Viet Nam in 1971, he was disfigured by shrapnel on the left side of his face and blinded in one eye. After 18 months and four operations to reconstruct his cheek and jaw, he went to Stanford Law, where he graduated first in his class. A Democrat until he changed parties in 1985, he served in the Florida legislature for nearly eight years. His conservative views impressed former Attorney General Edwin Meese, who appointed him to his present post...
...rainmaker" who drummed up merger deals for Wall Street's Drexel Burnham Lambert, stood out as one of the most colorful takeover specialists ever to don a power tie. Nicknamed "Mad Dog" for his courage under fire, he regaled friends with tales of his jungle-patrol days in Viet Nam. He talked of his Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and four Purple Hearts. He often told colleagues that he stood to inherit a multibillion-dollar fortune from the German brewery family of the same name...
...legend of Mad Dog is collapsing faster than a junk bond. Last week the Wall Street Journal disclosed that Beck, 43, never served in Viet Nam and has no ties to any beer barons. Interviewing several of Beck's relatives and colleagues, Journal reporter Bryan Burrough discovered that Mad Dog had invented much of his past. During Beck's supposed Viet Nam service he was actually attending Florida State University. One woman who dated Beck after the breakup of his second marriage said the banker "would wake up in cold sweats, shaking," saying he'd been dreaming about Viet...
...prospects for peace in Cambodia were advanced on another front last week when Moscow confirmed reports that it has withdrawn most of its air forces from the military base at Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay. The move appeared to be aimed at cutting costs, pressuring the U.S. to reduce its military presence in the Pacific and, significant for Cambodia, improving relations with Beijing. The Cambodian conflict has in some ways been a proxy war between the Soviets, who back Hun Sen, and the Chinese, who support the resistance...