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Speaking against the post–Vietnam backdrop of Soviet–American détente, the Russian author must have sounded hopelessly atavistic. The “lessons” of Vietnam were supposed to have humbled Cold Warriors and made them repentant for championing a policy of vigilant anti–Communism. Yet here was Solzhenitsyn defending not only the essential justness of U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but also rebuking the West for not doing more to meet the Communist challenge and stop “the forces of Evil.” As Harvard Law School...
International opinion about the United States was similarly low after the Vietnam War, he said. He added that America was able to change its image by adjusting its policies and its presentation of them, exemplified by the human rights policies of former presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, which were attractive internationally...
...SPRATLY ISLANDS Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all lay claim to some or all of these reefs and islets. In 1988, the dispute sparked a naval battle between China and Vietnam, in which more than 70 sailors died. In subtler declarations of ownership, Vietnam last week launched a holiday cruise to the barren archipelago, and Taiwan in late March marked its territory by erecting a bird-watching shack on one of the islands. At least there's a sensible money-grubbing reason for some of this squabbling: the Spratlys sit athwart vital shipping lanes, fishing grounds...
...always complimentary. But whether Murray came on like a raging tornado or a relentlessly pressing tide, his presence always drove those around him toward better journalism. Gart, who died on March 31, was the chief of TIME's team of correspondents until 1978, in an era marked by the Vietnam War, Watergate, turbulence in the Middle East and the nuclear-arms race. Reporting by the media was intense and competitive, and Gart owned one of the biggest budgets and oversaw 100 correspondents around the world. Sometimes it seemed as if every day he personally directed each one of us reporting...
...often a vexing and exceptional leader. No. 1 on France's hit parade of political popularity, an iconoclastic and intermittent minister, Bernard Kouchner was first celebrated for fishing out the boat people who fled Communist Vietnam and for bearing sacks of rice on his ministerial shoulder in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Nelson Mandela once whispered to him, "Thanks for intervening in matters that don't concern...