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...plans to increase the number of advisers working with the Iraqis from 2,000 to 10,000. It's a potentially harrowing assignment--modeled on the adviser program in the Vietnam War--since the advisers operate without the force protection that is standard in U.S.-run operations. But the approach could yield big dividends if the Iraqis quickly prove they can become cohesive fighting blocs. "In the past it's been more about getting them out there on the streets," says Lieut. Colonel Mark Kneram of the 10th Mountain Division. "Now it's a more holistic approach, training and fighting...
...sketchbook. "I began drawing immediately, and when I got to Paris, I kept going," he says. Botero, 73, says artists have for too long abandoned warfare to photojournalists. Picasso's Guernica became the most lasting image of the Spanish Civil War, yet there is no great art depicting the Vietnam War, he says--or, thus far, the war in Iraq. Botero's paintings and charcoal drawings will be unveiled in June at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, as part of a retrospective of his work, which will then travel to Germany, Greece...
...movement, which celebrates a major milestone this week: the 35th anniversary of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Back then a dedicated band of ecology-minded crusaders set out to save the planet with the same sort of idealistic, confrontational activism that was working so well for Vietnam War protesters and the women's movement...
...meet half an hour earlier on Anzac Day for our own service. There were just six of us Australians, all about 19 or 20 years old, and we had some rum in our coffee. I remember it was very bitter, and our warrant officer, who had served in Vietnam, talked to us about what Anzac Day meant to him. I realized then that it was more than just about old men whom I would never meet, and we all went to the main service with the Kiwis after that thinking how great it was to be Australian. That...
Eight months later, Coulter's relationship with MSNBC ended permanently after she tangled with a disabled Vietnam veteran on the air. Robert Muller, co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, asserted that "in 90% of the cases that U.S. soldiers got blown up [in Vietnam]--Ann, are you listening?--they were our own mines." (Muller was misquoting a 1969 Pentagon report that found that 90% of the components used in enemy mines came from U.S. duds and refuse.) Coulter, who found Muller's statement laughable, averted her eyes and responded sarcastically: "No wonder you guys lost." It became...