Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them. That is unfortunate, because we desperately need a better negotiating process than the one that is now producing a new arms race despite a massive global consensus in favor of disarmament, that fails to get food to starving millions despite an adequate supply, that has produced Vietnam and threatens repetition in El Salvador...
...leftover complications of long-ago some adventure that ripped the fabric of a conventional life: a successful businessman, whom the CIA drugged with LSD 20 years ago as a random experiment, throws himself into the public eye by suing the government for his life's subsequent turmoil; a Vietnam veteran, past 30, goes to Florida to watch the filming of a T.V. documentary about his sensational escape from prison camp a decade before. Or the pattern is inverted in "Some Straight Numb Commitment." A pair of teenagers married straight out of high school become hired "parents" to a flabby mental...
Dukakis predicts state governments will take an increased role in their own decision-making over the next few decades. "Vietnam taught us that concentrating power in the Nation's capital can be dangerous," he said...
Students played a major role in first questioning and then opposing American involvement in Vietnam. That movement began with mass teach-ins not unlike this month's event. Then, as now, the individuals who rejected the status quo--despite explanations as to why things could not be otherwise--arrived at the truth before everyone else. Popular opposition will contribute to the necessary goal of ending the arms race...
...Vietnam was so cataclysmic that it changed, for a few years, everything. Everything. From it grew rage, but more importantly questions and, sometimes, creative answers. From it grew thinking and, in some ways less important, involvement. For the only time in our lives, people were unhappy with all the world, and still hopeful for it. It was a time of potent men and women, who were going to create the world anew...