Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They tried to make the case that Colby's involvement in a U.S.-inspired assassination program in Vietnam some years ago, among other things, tainted him as a genocidist...
...ANOMALOUS collection of essays. The second piece in the book, "Jousting With Sam and Charlie," is about Navy carrier pilots. The essay was written in 1967. These guys are bombing Vietnam. They're killing people, and Wolfe is intrigued by their Rickerbacker-Lindbergh mystique. He gets upset that Harrison Salisbury of The New York Times went to Hanoi to write about the bravery of the Vietnamese in the face of awful destruction, after American planes had wiped out a North Vietnamese town thought to be an important transport center. A model operation, Wolfe calls it. What is Salisbury trying...
...capability to destroy 1000 tanks in a 90-day Central European war scenario, or the capability to deliver a given amount of bomb tonnage in Southeast Asia." His formulas did not include significant variables representing such factors as a ravaged European countryside or a decimated village in Vietnam...
William E. Colby, ex-director of the Central Intelligence Agency, defended the CIA's involvement in Chile and Vietnam last night before a crowd of over 300 at the Harvard Law School Forum and defined the current role of the CIA as intelligence-gathering rather than "spy and adventure...
Liberals have sometimes been criticized for holding a grudge in their judgment of those who participated in the prosecution of the Vietnam War. On the contrary, the history of Vietnam is its own harsh judgment. And it is too much to ask that America's future be entrusted for a second time to these men. It is regrettable that Jimmy Carter and those who received the Vance appointment so graciously do not yet realize that the need for experience in foreign affairs must give way if the experience is one we should not wish to relive...