Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elections" engineered by Prime Minister lan Smith. Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas, in opposing the Sentate bill to send an observer team to those "elections," compared Senate recognition of the white-dominated regime to the Tonkin Gulf resolution of 1964, which gave Congressional support to the escalation of the Vietnam...
...wake of our Vietnam experience it can certainly be argued that these commitments are not appropriate. Perhaps we should not defend these countries or retain any military capability to intervene outside the industrial West. This is a major change, however, with profound implications for our Allies, for our energy policy and for our self image. It is in this light--as a change in our foreign policy--that the recommendations of BSG should be regarded...
...objective presentation. It is often said about military analysis that how you count determines what you will find, and this is seen in the following quotation from Mr. Walker's article: "The current (military) budget is higher than any other period of U.S. history excepting World War II and Vietnam. It is higher now than during the Korean War and in the past fifty years of relative peace...
...former Marine grunt, member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and now a political activist, I was pleased with both Coming Home and The Deer Hunter [April 23]. There are many subtle lessons in our Asian experience, and it is my fervent hope that the generation now coming of age will be exposed to all of the views concerning...
SOMEHOW a rocking chair seems out of place in the repertoire of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Vietnam correspondent and monomaniacal reporter that David Halberstam is. But after a few telltale early-warning signs in The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam has finally lapsed into his anecdotage. The Powers That Be ranks as the ultimate politico-media gossip book, with a thousand jolly stories and vivacious quotes about four big-time media institutions--Time magazine, CBS, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times--and how they have interacted with politics, mainly presidential, during the last century...