Word: vietnamize
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...many times, he laid out the story for the entire saga in the early 70s, when another American military engagement was turning sour. Thus Palpatine was more Nixon than Bush, and the slaughter of the innocents in the Jedi Temple is an echo of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam...
...towering movie figure, both uniting and divisive, Wayne can finally be seen as a superb actor, not a Vietnam-era political litmus test. He made more than 150 films, but three of the best are in this package. Stagecoach, his first western with director John Ford, made Wayne a star. Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo was the most genial and communal of Wayne's films, as Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson help him corral the bad guys. In Ford's The Searchers--about a man obsessed by the ravages done to his niece by an Indian chief--Wayne is a cauldron...
...helped Bill Clinton come back from several major reversals, thinks Blair has plenty of juice left. "We successfully beat back the Tory appeal to their base, and we lost 2.5% on Iraq to the Lib Dems as a protest vote. This isn't Lyndon Johnson swept away by the Vietnam War. I think the protest is temporary. Blair has an opportunity to heal things and renew his leadership...
DIED. DAVID HACKWORTH, 74, one of the country's most decorated soldiers, who returned his 80 medals to protest the Army's efforts to court-martial him for unrelated alleged violations after he called Vietnam a "bad," unwinnable war on national television in 1971; of bladder cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. His 25-year military career included tours of duty in seven war zones, and he was said to have been the inspiration for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. More recently, as a TV pundit, he scorned the "perfumed princes" of the Bush Administration, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...When Victor Lu joined the Marines in the wake of 9/11, the Vietnam War, as far as he was concerned, was ancient history. If it ever entered his thoughts?as he worked out in order to lose enough weight to qualify as a Marine?no one in his family is aware of it. Friends say he was a highly motivated young man, keen to serve his country. His parents rarely talked about their own history at home, and it seemed of little concern to Victor...