Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swim coach Joseph Bernal, accepted as reigning export on the subject at Harvard, tells of a Vietnam prisoner of war, who returning home after seven years, plays golf on his local course. Although emaciated and weak, he scores near per because he claims he has been practicing for years, mentally rehearsing the course as an escape from prison life...
...biggest news stories of the year are currently playing themselves out in the same Federal court house in New York. Two well-known generals, William Westmoreland and Ariel Sharon, are suing two of the United States' biggest news organizations for libel. Westmoreland, former commander of the American forces in Vietnam, is suing CBS for $120 million ever a documentary it broadcast in 1982 charging that Westmoreland had taken part in a "conspiracy" during the war "to suppress and alter critical intelligence on the enemy." Sharon, mastermind of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, is suing Time magazine for $50 million...
...Wald, this is not the first time he has been arrested in an act of civil disobedience. He was previously arrested in the chamber of the House of Representatives during a protest against the Vietnam...
...antiwar movement. I received most of the press coverage. In 1967, SDS National Secretary Greg Calvert talked with The New York Times: his widely-read "fire-eating rhetoric," write Zaroulis and Sullivan, made "more difficult the task of all the many groups working to end the war in Vietnam...
...snippers like this which make the book worthwhile. The internal dynamics of the disparate groups that comprised the antiwar movement are an important and micy subject. And it's sort of fun knowing that skimming through this very readable book puts you at the forefront of anti-Vietnam War scholarship...