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...DIED. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND, 91, consummate military man who oversaw the buildup of U.S. troops in Vietnam from 1964-68 and was later vilified for it; in Charleston, South Carolina. The strapping West Point graduate led battalions in World War II and Korea, and landed in Vietnam as the great hope of the Johnson Administration. But after the 1968 Tet offensive fueled opposition to the war, he was brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White...
That, more or less, has been the case with treating any current war on series TV. During Vietnam, M*A*S*H satirized the Korean War, while on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Pete Seeger sang Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, a protest song nominally about World War II. Hogan's Heroes, China Beach, even Operation Petticoat took place years after the hostilities. Only old wars were ready for prime time...
Ginsberg is a Washington, D.C. lawyer who worked as the Bush reelection campaign’s top outside counsel. He resigned abruptly in August 2004 after the Bush campaign learned he had advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth—a group that made questionable claims against the Vietnam War record of Sen. John F. Kerry, Bush’s Democratic opponent...
...North Korea needs to move the way Vietnam and China have in the past quarter-century?gradually liberalizing their economies and even their politics, cutting back on military forces, improving human rights. All these things clearly can be done even within a communist system. If Pyongyang proves willing to do so, the international community can go well beyond electricity deals and security assurances, offering broader packages of development assistance from the other five participants in the six-party talks, the European Union and the World Bank, as well as lifting U.S. trade sanctions...
...DIED. JAMES STOCKDALE, 81, candid, self-deprecating U.S. Navy Vice Admiral who earned the Medal of Honor for his rare courage in Vietnam, and who later ran for Vice President beside Ross Perot; in Coronado, California. After leading the first U.S. air strike into North Vietnam in 1964, he was captured and imprisoned the following year at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton," where he was brutalized repeatedly over seven-and-a-half years and held in solitary confinement for four. Stockdale inspired fellow POWs, including the future Senator John McCain, with his motto "Unity Over Self" and his remarkable defiance...