Word: vietnam
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...Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin). A boyish politician, spooked by an election defeat and by undead memories of Vietnam, retreats to a Minnesota lake to sort things out. He and his wife, who has spooks of her own, slip separately through the trapdoors of the mind into the subterranean world where morality, evil and reality itself are shifting phantoms. O'Brien, who served in Vietnam and in 1979 won the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato, once more displays his enormous talent...
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who guided the Kennedy Administration through the Cuban Missile Crisis and led the Johnson Administration deeper into Vietnam, died last night from heart disease in his Athens, Ga., home. Touted as one of Kennedy's team of "best and brightest," Rusk stayed in the post through the end of Johnson's tenure in 1969 -- despite criticism (even from one of his sons) over his advocacy of the flagging Vietnam war effort. For that, he never apologized: "Because of this nation's commitments, I had a duty to perform; to try to prevent North Vietnam...
...including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along U.S.-Chinese negotiations.) BTW: The memo -- one of only 30 numbered copies -- was one of 44 million WW II, Korean and Vietnam war documents recently declassified by President Clinton, one of the biggest mass declassifications in U.S. history.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...battle over ROTC has always been a clash of values. In the late 1960s, when Harvard students stormed University buildings in an attempt to force ROTC off campus, the clash was over Vietnam and the role of the military in our society. On one side stood those who felt the war was evil and that the military, as the agent of that war, was evil as well. On the other side stood those who felt the military was a necessary institution, and one that should not be denied the contributions of Harvard students...
...appear in the '40s, '50s or '60s but in 1974. By then cracks had marred the diamond's surface. "Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters," Bob Dylan sang in 1965, coincidentally staking out his own rogue claim to leadership. QUESTION AUTHORITY, added an unknown sloganeer. Vietnam and Watergate further confused and corroded. Nixon was a month from resigning. America, TIME suggested in 1974, seemed plagued by "a sense of unease, not only of giants having departed but also of mere competence being all too scarce." When the magazine repeated the exercise in 1979 during Jimmy Carter's third...