Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YEARS or so, images of the horrible story of modern Cambodia seep into Western conciousness, only to give way after a while to the ongoing concerns of the day. But for the people of Cambodia, the nightmare is never-ending. First there was the murderous U.S. "sideshow" to the Vietnam War that took the form of B-52 raids on innocent civilians in the early 1970s. When the U.S. left Indochina in 1975, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot took over and instituted a bloodbath in the name of one of the most insane ideologies to come to the face...
...Against Therbes could be used to tell a culture about the dangers of civil strife, Perhaps Endgame should be adopted in to a new play: an existential version of The Day After or a theatric reminder that the war on poverty was just at unsuccessful as the debacle in Vietnam...
...documentary that television viewers saw on CBS on Jan. 23, 1982, was glossy and seamless. In The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, CBS's Mike Wallace, his voice resonating with authority, charged that there had been a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in Viet Nam in order to deceive President Lyndon Johnson and the American people into believing that the U.S. was winning...
...interest in the country, which bordered on obsession, outlived America's controversial involvement. In 1977, two years after the fall of Saigon, Cooperman made the first of about a dozen trips to Viet Nam. Upon his return, he founded the nonprofit Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Vietnam, through which he publicly lobbied for normal diplomatic and trade relations with the new pro-Soviet regime...
BLOODS: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR BY BLACK VETERANS by Wallace Terry. Twenty articulate ex-servicemen contribute to a moving verbal portrait of beleaguered pride and surprising patriotism...