Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Institute of Drug Abuse reported that 10 per cent of the Mexican marijuana it examined was contaminated. The defoliant, similar to those used in Vietnam, can cause death--or at the least, very unpleasant high...
...Brien talked in a recent Real Paper feature of the dreaming he did in Vietnam to keep his mind off the war. His personal daydream was to leave the war and live in a chalet in the Austrian mountains, and read. But, he said of the dilemma that caught him between fighting in a war that was morally wrong and the obligation he felt to his country and to his middle-western, middle-class parents: "My single philosophical tenet is that you can't outrun your sense of obligation--even in imagination. It's always there...
...Point motto--Duty, Honor, Country--are also O'Brien's. But modified--if Hemingway is in some form or another the spiritual godfather of this book other influences also shine through. As Michael Herr said in his excellent book of reporting on the war, Dispatches, the crazy war in Vietnam and the equally crazy cultural revolution here both fed off the same circuit, to the point that the survivors of both of those twittering machines are almost indistinguishable from each other. "All Along the Watchtower" arcs above the prose as Hemingway does below, not Dylan's fearful version but Jimi...
...away again, and Paul Berlin, left with his sense of obligation, climbs down from the observation tower to go back to the senseless war. Michael Herr relates in Dispatches the story of passing a blind man on a New York street with a friend who was a medic in Vietnam. Around the man's neck was a sign that read, "My Nights Are Darker Than Your Days." Herr and his friend looked at each other, almost guiltily; if you only knew, they thought. Going After Cacciato was six years in the writing; let us hope O'Brien writes again soon...
...thing U.S. foreign policy makers don't want is a repeat of the Vietnam anti-war movement," Schecter said. Addressing a group of about 35 at Adams House, the "news dissecter" added, "People in this room have more power than they know to influence policy...