Word: vietnam
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...unscarred. Out of the 182 studied, 45 percent suffered illnesses that needed psychiatric care, including chronic depression and drug and alcohol problems. One out of every three had post-traumatic stress syndrome, replete with the sense-triggered flashbacks, angry outbursts and nightmares that were last widely seen among Vietnam veterans...
That diverse coalition was on glorious display at a July 31 rally in the city's Martin Luther King Park. More than 10,000 people turned out for the rally, the largest in Berkeley since the Vietnam War, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Political cross-pollination was the rule. Tables set up around the perimeter advertised the Sierra Club, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Police Review Commission and even the Rally to Prevent Y2K Catastrophe...
That diverse coalition was on glorious display at a July 31 rally in the city's Martin Luther King Park. More than 10,000 people turned out for the rally, the largest in Berkeley since the Vietnam War, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Political cross-pollination was the rule. Tables set up around the perimeter advertised the Sierra Club, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Police Review Commission and even the Rally to Prevent Y2K Catastrophe...
...sheer firepower and tenacity of the rebels--led by Manuel ("Sureshot") Marulanda--have pinned down successive governments for 38 years and made Washington wary of involvement. "We don't want to get into another Vietnam down there," says a senior Army officer assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Right now, there's no guarantee the Colombian government is going to win, and we don't want to back the losers--again." After McCaffery's visit, however, it was still tough to spot the winners...
Last week huge purplish black jellyfish, Chrysaora achlyos, not spotted since 1989, appeared near San Diego. Rarer still, Javan rhinoceroses were photographed this spring. They have been feared extinct since shortly after the Vietnam War. And in 1997 and '98, at least two coelacanths, rare fish, were caught by Indonesian fishermen. Prior to 1938, the fish was believed to have been extinct for more than 25 million years...