Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RUNNING FOR the Republican presidential nomination early in 1968. Michigan Gov. George Romney did himself in when he admitted he had been "brainwashed" into supporting the Vietnam War. Seeking the Democratic nod for the Oval Office four years later, Maine Sen Edmond S. Muskie permanently crippled his front-running campaign when he publicly wept in response to spurious charges about his wife leveled by the tasteless Manchester Union Leader...
That this activism has been and continues to be her life's work seems clear. A member of the Trotskyite Worker's Revolutionary Party, Redgrave has proven fanatically devoted to a number of causes, among them American withdrawal from Vietnam, and the antinuclear movement. She ran for British parliament unsuccessfully in 1979, and made and distributed two propaganda films for the PLO under that group's sponsorship. She has called repeatedly for the eradication of the state of Israel; in one of the PLO films she appeals holding a machine gun above her head while dancing with PLO members...
That, at least, seemed to describe the mood of the magazine's October 18 issue. Before that, Newsweek had taken an editorial position only three times in its history on an issue facing the nation on race, on Vietnam, and on energy. Presented against the backdrop of the Reagan Administration's announcement that the jobless rate in America had reached a post-depression record 10.1 percent, last week's proposed agenda for easing unemployment marked the fourth. The results, however, are disappointing. Rather than offering a complete program for getting America back to work. Newsweek gives a conglomeration of uncoordinated...
...expected to pick up on the plethora of New York catch phrases with which Prager litters her stories. Even "The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device," a cynical tale of women fighting in combat-ridden Vietnam, contains a few passing references to "a gay friend of mine who does props for the Met." Bendel's department store, the "Hers" column, Jerzy Kosinski, Brearley and, yes, the Fly Club manage to sneak into the collection's other stories...
...collection's longest story--"The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device"--that Prager really lets all, her fantasles hang out. Here she details the adventures of operation. Foxy Fire, a special female detachment stationed in Vietnam. Under the direction of a frigid Radcliffe grad (Major Victoria Lincoln-Pruitt), a strange conglomeration of prostitutes and army career women prepares to implement the war's newest and most terrifying weapon, the L.P.A.R.D. This nasty device, used either offensively or defensively, makes casual sex an extremely dangerous enterprise--at least...