Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Vietnam veterans is sending a convoy of 50 trucks down to Nicaragua to give "real humanitarian aid to the people of Nicaragua." The efforts by these Vietnam veterans to aid the Nicaraguan people strike at the heart of Reagan administration policy in that region by questioning whether it seeks to bring about freedom or has some other, less benevolent purpose. The answer may be that U.S. policy objectives in Central America are no different from what some contend they were in Vietnam...
...popular conception is that we lost the war in Vietnam. However, as Noam Chomsky points out, maybe we didn't. It all depends on the objectives, and how we define won and lost. Of course, if the objective in Vietnam was to prevent the country from going red, we lost the war. But was this the true goal? Or was it rather, in Henry Kissinger's phrase, to "bomb them back to the Stone...
About a decade later, during the Vietnam War, army officials again considered trying to synthesize the potent female sex attractant, but this time they wanted the substance to function as a sort of natural spy detector, Roth recalls. Army officials proposed spreading the substance in areas occupied by the North Vietnamese, so anyone who crossed the boundaries between North and South Vietnam, such as a South Vietnamese spy, would be given away by a tell-tale appeal to male roaches...
...Disney is not just kid stuff. Under its Touchstone label, Disney is making movies that often contain more than a sprinkling of sex and mayhem. "Disney is still Disney, the one ingrained in the American memory," says Robin Williams, who stars in Good Morning, Vietnam. "But it's a different Disney, doing different things. Touchstone is from the same family, but it's a new child in town. This Minnie has nipples...
...signing them up for multipicture deals. Midler went on to star in Ruthless People (revenues: $72 million) and Outrageous Fortune ($53 million). Dreyfuss appeared again in Stakeout ($66 million) and Tin Men ($26 million). Robin Williams, who had made two bombs at other studios, hit big with Good Morning, Vietnam. Says he: "Jeffrey ((Katzenberg)) picks people in neutral, stalled between phases, and tries to find the right vehicle for them. There's a joke going around that he hangs out outside the Betty Ford Center." But besides recruiting the down-and-out, Katzenberg lures established stars by offering them Hollywood...