Word: vietnam
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...month. "Given the President's own opposition to the war when he was in college, there was some fear in the White House that this risk was not worth taking," Fischer says. "But there seems to have been a shift in attitude in support of recognizing Vietnam -- that if Clinton did not do it, he would also pay a price." The closed-doors debate in recent weeks pitted National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, who favors the move, against Clinton's political advisers. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.), bothveterans, have advocated the step, backed...
...that shot down Capt. Scott O'Grady, saysTIME's Mark Thompson. The Navy had mothballed the jammers, which worked imperfectly, Thompson says. "But these things are just sitting in a warehouse, and the pilots I've talked to say they'd much rather have these things than the Vietnam-era equipment they're using...
...answers to these questions remain elusive.Inexplicably, one woman killed her best friendafter they had decided not to live together nextyear. Neither Tadesse, an Ethopian, nor Ho, anative of Vietnam, had many friends outside theAfrican Students Association and the VietnameseStudent's Association, respectively. Both pre-medswere described as quiet, studious, and nice...
Reunited in their 40s, they are a lively bunch. But Conroy, who has thrived by writing in the first-person portentous, burdens his already preoccupied characters with the bloody 20th century. Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy. So is some of Conroy's rhetoric. "Through no preference or selection of our own," begins one chapter, "the graduating class of 1966, in high schools all over America, found ourselves cast like dice across the velvet-covered gambling tables of history ... the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like...
James ("Bo") Gritz, ex-Special Forces commander and Vietnam War hero, is well known in the Patriot movement. But its extremist credo leaves him cold. Though mad at Washington, he helped win the 1992 surrender of separatist Randy Weaver. TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson talked to Gritz in Bakersfield, California. Excerpts...