Word: vietnam
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...manager in the American Hiring League, you are looking for employees in the hottest U.S. economy in 28 years, and you're going to have to wheel and deal, beg, borrow and steal--however and wherever you can--to find the help you need. Not since 1970, when the Vietnam War and a guns-and-butter economy created a huge demand for skilled manpower, has there been a tougher time to expand the corporate work force, especially in the high-tech industries of the "new economy...
...senior vice president in charge of creating it, explains that "both organizations will be developing and completing their own story ideas." And the results won't appear only on your tube: this week's TIME includes an exclusive account of America's secret use of poison gas during the Vietnam War. The reporters? CNN senior producer Jack Smith, producer April Oliver and correspondent Peter Arnett...
WASHINGTON: A joint TIME-CNN report that claims the U.S. military dropped sarin nerve gas some 20 times during the Vietnam war has caused something of a stir in the corridors of power. Defense Secretary William Cohen asked his staff to hunt for evidence of sarin deployment Monday, while Rep. David Skaggs (D-Colo.) of the House Intelligence Committee -- himself a Vietnam vet -- said he found the story "absolutely stunning and appalling if it is substantiated." Skaggs launched his own inquiry to attempt just that...
...this case, however, evidence is a little hard to come by. "Black Ops" don't leave paper trails, and that allows for official deniability. Cohen's Vietnam-era predecessor, Melvin Laird, claims the U.S. shipped a "small amount" of sarin to Saigon in 1967, but never used it. "I have no recollection of any operation like that," Laird told reporters Monday. "It doesn't seem logical to me." As for retired admiral Thomas Moorer, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who told CNN reporter Peter Arnett that President Nixon had approved the use of sarin -- well, Moorer...
With the advent of the '60s and the Vietnam War, Chaplin's American fortunes turned. He orchestrated a festival of his films in New York in 1963. Amid the loudest and longest ovation in its history, he accepted a special Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1972. There were dissenters. Governor Ronald Reagan, for one, believed the government did the right thing in 1952. During the 1972 visit, Chaplin, at 83, said he'd long ago given up radical politics, a welcome remark in a nation where popular favor has often been synonymous with depoliticization...