Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WRITER MICHAEL HERR finished up his psychedelic memoir of the Vietnam War, Dispatches, with an odd chant: "Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there." He was wrong. If it was anything like what is depicted in Oliver Stone's Platoon, we had no idea...
Then there was the Divinity School student who mutilated himself on the steps of the State House earlier this fall. Erwin L. Rupert II pierced his chest with wooden skewers in a ritual act to show support for four Vietnam veterans fasting in Washington...
...play is the story of Kenneth Talley Jr. (Tim Ashford), an overeducated homosexual who lost his legs in Vietnam. He lives on the Talley family farm near Lebanon, Mo., with his lover, Gardener Jed (Josh Frost). It's Independence Day, 1977 and Ken is holding a reunion of sorts with his aunt, his sister and her illegitmate child, and two old friends...
...Soviets provide North Korea with MiG-23 fighter aircraft and Scud surface-to-surface missiles. In return, they have acquired calling rights at the North Korean ports of Nampo and Najin and clearance for military reconnaissance flights from Vladivostok to the Soviet air base at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. These arrangements are a major annoyance to Peking...
...action followed a rally speech by 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman in which the anti-war protester strongly criticized alleged CIA involvement in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Vietnam. Hoffman was also arrested...