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...author of the recent book Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime argued that the high stakes of war make necessary a constructive tension between political and military leaders. He faulted Lyndon B. Johnson for failing to ask tough questions of his generals during the Vietnam...
Oelstrom, who served in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf among other posts, offered a number of his experiences in the military to illustrate his perspective...
...Prostitutes] are as young as seven, and the thinking there is that they’re too young to have AIDS,” Prasse-Freeman says. “The phenomenon began during the Vietnam War, when GIs on leave came to Thailand. After the war, demand plummeted, so they began doing these ‘sex tours’ as a way to bring business back up. Now, however, there is also a lot of local Thai...
Valenti, the man who designed the current system for rating movies in America after serving as special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson during the Vietnam War, had met with University President Lawrence H. Summers earlier yesterday morning to discuss the movie industry’s piracy concerns...
What's the advantage? Conventional vaccines are costly to make and distribute in the impoverished Third World countries that need them most. That's why Arntzen and others began thinking about using plants instead of needles, creating vaccines that would be easy to grow locally in, say, Vietnam or Bangladesh. He focused on diarrhea, because, says Arntzen, "diarrheal diseases kill at least 2 million people in the world every year, most of them children." And he chose tomatoes because greenhouse-grown tomatoes can't easily pass their altered genes to other crops and because tomato-processing equipment is relatively cheap...