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While the collapse of communism made for some great visuals in '89, it is worth remembering that the third industrial revolution can cut both ways, complicating the lives of American Presidents as well as communist leaders. To the fury of Lyndon Johnson, TV brought the Viet Nam War home to the U.S. and hastened its humiliating end. Some former advisers to Ronald Reagan suspect he might have stuck by Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 had it not been for the extensive and sympathetic coverage of People Power...
BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. Tom Cruise comes of age an an actor in this impassioned panorama of life, death and rebirth in the Viet Nam years. If director Oliver Stone is almost breathless on the subject, he also packs enough power and craft to make Viet Nam fester on screen -- one more time...
James Wilde's presence in revolutionary Rumania last week surprised none of us: after all, the foreign correspondent is hardly a stranger to bloodshed and chaos. In 30 years with TIME, Wilde has reported on wars from Viet Nam, Africa and the Middle East. During the war in Biafra in the late 1960s, when the eastern part of Nigeria tried to secede, Wilde not only came under frequent ground fire but was strafed by Nigerian jet fighters as well...
...impossible to tell whether the invasion would end up more like Viet Nam or more like Grenada. Some 24,000 U.S. troops had quickly taken command of most of Panama and overwhelmed organized resistance by the Panama Defense Forces, Noriega's combination army and police. But Noriega got away and was thought to be hiding in the forests or even in the sprawling capital city; the U.S. offered a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture...
...President shows an increasing willingness to use force, but the biggest U.S. military venture since Viet Nam does not look to be an easy triumph. Operation Just Cause was well planned but flawed. Can Panama's new U.S.-installed leaders run the country? Manuel Noriega may have lost control of himself as well as his country. Parcel bombs kill a Southern judge and a civil rights activist...