Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says. "In my most formative years. I listened to the likes of Edward R. Murrow." The British-born Koppel came to the U.S. in 1953, spent his undergraduate years at Syracuse University and received a Masters in journalism from Stanford. In 1963, he joined ABC and reported from Vietnam--he learned Vietnamese before he left--and then headed the network's Hong Kong bureau. In 1977, he became the anchor of the ABC "Saturday Night Evening News...
During the Harvard strike in 1969 and the clamor of Vietnam demonstrations, the Harvard Shop was severely vandalized. Christopoulous said the police came by one day at about 6 p.m. and told him to close up because 3000 demonstrators were marching down Mass...
...news. Some veterans felt that their side had sold out. "This was the settlement the chemical companies were looking for," said Lee Covino, a Viet Nam veteran in New York City. "The vets had no say in this." But most seemed to agree with Frank McCarthy, president of the Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Victims. "It's an incredible start," he proclaimed. "We wanted a trust fund, and we got it without going through a trial and opening old wounds...
...interview, Stringer confides with startling candor his doubts about Producer George Crile, principal reporter for the 1982 documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, that prompted the Westmoreland suit. "We have our own suspicions about George Crile," says Stringer, speaking supposedly off the record shortly after the broadcast. Speculating about whether Crile might have cut corners in his reporting, Stringer remarks, "I should have known I wouldn't get fair journalism off him." As executive producer of the show, Stringer is expected to be a key witness in CBS'S defense, but his taped words seem to contradict...
...upon each other. The Iranians have amussed estimated 400,000 troops in a front covering Basra. Iraq's second largest city, and the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway. Already, three times as many Iranian soldiers have died in the 43 month conflict that did Americans in the much longer Vietnam...