Word: vietnam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...believe that it is in America's interest to obtain a mutually beneficial and verifiable agreement with the Soviet Union to limit strategic armaments. Many Americans, however, still unhappy over our withdrawal from Vietnam, are afraid that other nations will view us as weak. Accordingly, they seek unwarranted additions to the defense budget and long for a return to unchallengeable U.S. military superiority...
...great gray area of the book, however, is you don't know exactly how much Stockwell himself has changed. He says he was disillusioned with the CIA's operations, but he was disillusioned after a tour in Vietnam, and he didn't quit then. It's possible that the Angolan experience left him cynical enough about the CIA's efficacy that he couldn't get excited over more dirty little wars, and his superiors saw the change and decided to stagnate his career. There are indications that he'd've liked it just as well if the U.S. had gone...
...explosions, which are now shaking the kibbutz and drowning out even the loudest singing, the group bursts into a Hebrew chorus of a tune that sounds familiar to me. It is "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" --a vestige of some long-ago childhood memories of the Vietnam protests...
Another young American is in the room, who understands what that song means to our generation, looks at me with a haunted expression on his face. It is a sort of Vietnam deja-vu, combined with the horrors of our own decade of ten years later.... In order to gain the reader's sympathies, Feldstein has desperately associated his emotional reflections toward this war situation with the markedly different nature of suffering inflicted by the Nazi Germans and North Vietnamese within very contrasting circumstances...
Please tell the fellow-travelers who wrote "Vietnam: What Have We Learned?" (Crimson, April 12) that if the Bach Mai Hospital were destroyed by American bombers, then it must have had only one patient! According to the Vietnam News Agency (Hanoi), only one patient of the hospital suffered any injuries at all. If the hospital was hit, many more than one patient would have been hurt. It seems unlikely that the hospital was the intended target of the air attack since a major oil storage depot, which is a legitimate war-time target, was located nearby. The exaggerations about American...