Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three Harvard professors attended an international conference in Vietnam in January that examined the impact of dioxin on the offspring of males exposed to Agent Orange...
Silva has not spent his visit to the United States making accusations. Rather, he warns that current policies will plunge us into another Vietnam. "To look at the media, Reagan seems to be selling the idea that with a little more effort--a few more advisors, a little more aid--the rebels can be defeated," he said in an interview Tuesday. "But escalating the military aid will decrease the results in the same proportion." The rebels, he says, have frustrated the efforts of the 22,400 soldiers and 11,000 security men of the Salvadoran government, and "the rhythm...
...American advisor, Sgt. Jay T. Stanley, was wounded during a rebel offensive in the Usulutan region. This incident of an American combat casualty was reported, but later omitted by both Time and Newsweek in recent features on El Salvador. Congress has complained not about the unethically of starting another Vietnam, but about the high cost and "lack of tangible effects." With the early-1960's style of mawkishness comes the same hackneyed talk of "Marxist-Leninist contagion...
...maintain the status quo, the Administration will probably have to periodically increase the numbers of U.S. military personnel in El Salvador. The greater American military presence in El Salvador, the greater the likelihood of full-fledged intervention. Such a scenario is frighteningly reminiscent of Vietnam...
...complex mixture of guilt, hate, envy, love, and grief that William a young husband and father, feels for Eddie his oldest and best friend. The story jump about in time to tell how William avoided the draft and courted Ellen, his future wife, while Eddie was killed in Vietnam, and how Eddie possibly fathered Ellen's child before he was killed. Watching the little girl now, William wonders, and finds it "not so simple now as then, not easy to be a part of Ellen without knowing or wanting to know the web our kisses make...