Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...History has told us," Hernandez said, "that the only way to stop war is by expressing opinions in the streets, like Vietnam...
...affected as financial aid is less of a concern. In a sense, as a result of class backround, one group can buy out of this community work requirement. This is a chilling reminder of draft practices in the 1960s and '70s, when most of those who actually served in Vietnam came from lower-income families...
...Director Wiley Slaughter (Alvin Epstein)--a thinly disguised lampoon of former real-life CIA Director William Casey--$800 million in government funds is diverted to produce a Hollywood epic. "Tet Offensive"--the film which was based on the book, "Tet Offensive," which was further based on the real-life Vietnam war attack--was to be shot in Central America. Only this time the target, that is the target in the film, was to be the Communist occupied Central American nation of Ambigua...
Several foreign students are among the 16 center residents, including students from Mexico, Argentina, Uganda, Vietnam and Canada...
...really insensitive or racist to call the 1950s "carefree" times? Compared to the 1940s--which brought us Hitler, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb--the 1950s might seem carefree. Next to the 1960s and 1970s--which gave us race riots, Vietnam, Watergate and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that decade might seem like "Happy Days." But the truth is, no decade can fairly be termed "carefree...