Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, it has survived the Vietnam War, disco, Cindy Lauper and wretched Boston winters. But this past December, time stopped in Harvard Square. The mechanical controller for the digital clock above Cambridge Savings Bank "melted," according to Nelson Goddard, senior vice president of administration for the bank...
...military historian William Hammond will investigate the Army's accreditation process for reporters during the Vietnam War during his fellowship...
Take one fictional Ozzie-and-Harriet-like Irish-Catholic couple and their three teenagers. Put them through the crucible of the sexual and drug revolutions, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, women's lib, Watts and Woodstock. Then toss in newsreel footage of every conceivable major event that occurred during this tumultuous time. Now squeeze all this into a four-hour mini-series and try to tell a credible story. Ludicrous? Yet NBC pretty well manages the feat. Enacted by a solid cast and enhanced by a smartly used greatest-hits soundtrack, The '60s is clear-eyed, compassionate and surprisingly affecting...
...mouth."' One of Mease's own defense lawyers admitted: "Quite frankly, this case was probably one of the weaker clemency cases...There were no real claims of mental illness, no question of guilt. It was a triple murder. He had one argument dealing with post-traumatic stress from Vietnam, but really he had a snowball's chance in hell...
...even some older, repeat offenders are getting punishments that seem ridiculously disproportionate to their crimes. Consider Douglas Gray, a husband, father, Vietnam veteran and owner of a roofing business who bought a pound of marijuana in an Alabama motel for $900 several years ago. The seller turned out to be a police informant, a felon fresh from prison whom cops paid $100 to do the deal. Because Gray had been arrested for several petty crimes 13 years earlier--crimes that didn't even carry a prison sentence--he fell under the state's "habitual offender" statutes. He got life without...