Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rationale for pulling the plug, the signatories of the memo postulated, was nothing less than "to protect the integrity of the Championship Season." Such logic had last been employed during the Vietnam War. In order to save the village that is baseball, the owners as much as said, they had to get out the napalm. Donald Fehr, head of the Players Association, expressed no surprise. Referring, perhaps unwittingly, to the intractability of both sides in the week before the cancellation, Fehr said, "There might as well have been wooden dolls at the bargaining table...
NIXON -- Cambodia: "I have concluded that the actions of the enemy in the last 10 days clearly endanger the lives of Americans who are in Vietnam...
They are principally congregating in three distinct areas: the Pacific Rim, including not only such thriving hubs as Tokyo and Hong Kong but China, / Vietnam and Cambodia as well; Latin America, especially Mexico, which, thanks to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement last year, has become a potentially major market for U.S. goods and expertise; and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, where capitalism is breaking out all over, often in unpredictable ways. "Only an entrepreneurial student is willing to walk into so unstructured an environment," says consultant Hanigan. "You have the cowboys going...
...nation that is on the verge of misplacing its own carefree illusions. It could be argued that 1963 marked the true end of the 1950s. While Phillips' campers frolic, the U.S., having ignored Eisenhower's departing warning about fighting a land war in Asia, is getting pushy in Vietnam; rock 'n' roll is beginning to convert youthful masses to the worship of the free libido; and Lee Harvey Oswald is ordering his rifle by mail...
...Vietnam...