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...steely determination. In what she said was her first such protest in 34 years, the actress joined marchers in Washington to demand that U.S. troops leave Iraq. "Silence is no longer an option," Fonda said to cheers from the crowd. Dubbed Hanoi Jane by conservatives for her stance on Vietnam (that's her in 1970, left, in Valley Forge, Pa.), Fonda said she had restrained her Iraq activism so as not to be a distraction for the contemporary antiwar movement but finally felt the need to speak out. The march was also attended by such lefty stalwarts as Susan Sarandon...
DIED. Dale Noyd, 73, decorated Air Force captain and longtime Air Force Academy teacher who in 1966 drew worldwide attention as a humanist and conscientious objector to one war: Vietnam; of emphysema; in Seattle. After the Air Force refused his request to resign his commission based on his belief that the war was illegal and immoral, he filed a suit against the Pentagon that the Supreme Court declined to hear. Around the same time, he was court-martialed for refusing to train a pilot destined for Vietnam, sentenced to a year in jail and dishonorably discharged...
...invent, a more hopeful trend: the Crisis-Time Pick-Me-Up. In troubled times, Oscar sometimes looks for an antidote (or palliative), and chooses a happy-think movie for Best Picture. It happened during World War II, when the Catholic musical Going My Way won, and in the Vietnam War, with the Dickens musical Oliver, and at the apogee of the Watergate crisis, with The Sting, and just after the Clinton impeachment, when the modest comedy Shakespeare in Love snipered Steven Spielberg's bloody Saving Private Ryan...
What does Springsteen do with all that money? For one thing, he has a well-developed social conscience. He donated $1.5 million of his earnings from the last tour to such charities as shelters for the homeless, an unemployed-steel-workers' group and food banks. A spokesman for the Vietnam Veterans of America says that the organization might not exist today if it had not been for Springsteen's early, generous and consistent support. Two weeks ago, Springsteen donated an undisclosed sum to a New Jersey food bank to pay for the distribution of free turkeys to the poor...
...Bangkok's industrial-strength sex trade first developed during the Vietnam War to cater to American soldiers on R&R. Since then, it has mushroomed, luring both locals and sex tourists from around the world. Viagra has enlivened the industry, bringing a whole new generation of men to the Bangkok night scene. A survey by a leading Thai university estimated that between 1999 and 2002, 2.8 million Thais participated in the sex business - this in a country whose entire population is 65 million. Roughly 800,000 of those sex workers were underage; most came from poor farming households in Thailand...