Word: vietnames
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...High Lifes in the Miller commericals. He wears flannel shirts, boots, and a down hunting vest. He shares a mobile home with one of the guys. He drives his '59 Cadillac into the mountains to hunt deer one last time before he has to go to Vietnam...
...when Michael goes to Vietnam he confronts his real test of manhood. He can play Russian Roulette in the Heart of Darkness, and win, because he is disciplined. He always understood life in terms of will and courage and manliness, and now he saves himself and his friends. He forces his superior ethic on his companions, inspiring them to develop the grit and sacrifice necessary to survive. The way director Michael Cimino sets things up, it's understood that they will win DeNiro always is a winner, and here with his boy's-book sensibility and see-to-shining...
...America knew what happened in the Phillipines at the turn of the century, maybe Vietnam would not have happened," Aquino said, and added that Peter W. Stanley, the primary author of the Phillipines chapters should have used recently declassified documents to show past American abuses...
...though he's a Harvard graduate with leftist credentials that include membership in the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, St. George says he will never join the traditional liberal coalition. As his brother--and campaign manager--Robert'64 says, "we feel the CCA rarely has sensitivity to community needs...
...Soviets would, as Khruschev claimed, 'bury us' if they were provided with a clear opportunity to do so. They are basically correct." America, by contrast, "is not expansionist today, and we seek no dominance, only stability." (When Tsongas first ran for public office we were embroiled in the Vietnam War. Since that time we have overthrown a government in Chile, and shored up governments in numerous other corners of the globe.) So, in Tsongas's mind, the answer is not only to court Third World nations--a fine idea--but also to spend as much of our gross national product...