Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours of searching, he found Christopher in the emergency room at Children's. They moved him to intensive care, and then Nguyen and his wife, like so many others, could only sit and wait. And seethe. "I've seen war, O.K.? I've seen soldiers I fought with in Vietnam cut this way, cut in half, heads cut off. That was war. These are children. This is not a war. This is a crime...
...trying to recast his presidency after the new Republican Congress wrapped up its much heralded first 100 days. But he hampered that effort with two comments. First he revived one of the most controversial periods of his own past by saying he felt vindicated in his opposition to the Vietnam War, thanks to the penitent memoirs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Then Clinton strained to assert his own relevance to events in Washington. He was relevant, he insisted in a press conference, because the U.S. Constitution said so. His aides winced...
...REVIEWING STANDS ARE UP; THE COMMEMORATIVE billboards are in place along the parade route and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, is bracing for the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Network stars and war correspondents such as Dan Rather and Peter Arnett will be reporting from the roof of the old U.S. embassy and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Veterans' groups and congressional fact-finding delegations are swarming over the country. Instead of simply reliving the war, though, the visitors are discovering the new Vietnam, where rooftop satellite dishes and joint-venture hotels signal the emergence...
...remorse he would without hesitation donate all proceeds from his book to Vietnam veterans that are currently alive and confined to Veterans Hospitals across our nation...
...rhetoric now is exactly the same as it was during the Vietnam War-driven by greed and self-interest...