Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death, cloaca and kindred flavors. It was what evil would smell like if it were available in an aerosol can--bad enough to make the South Side stockyards, next door to the convention, smell almost wholesome. This exotic moral stink had drifted halfway around the world, after all, from Vietnam...
That left Senators Connie Mack of Florida and John McCain of Arizona, plus former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell. Dole, who has said frequently that he needed to be comfortable with his running mate, has always liked McCain. But the former Vietnam P.O.W. had his drawbacks, including being a member of the "Keating Five." Campbell is highly popular in the South, but since leaving the governorship he has been chief Washington lobbyist for the insurance industry, the ultimate in Beltway insider jobs...
...Dole's hawkishness on Vietnam and crime issues and his unwavering loyalty to Nixon were enough to keep him in good standing with the right wing. When word got out in 1971 that Nixon was planning to make Dole chairman of the Republican National Committee, there were protests to the White House from nearly half the 43 Republicans in the Senate. Many were moderates who were afraid he would concentrate party assets on conservatives. They were wrong. One of the main lessons Dole learned from Nixon, who expanded social spending at home even as he escalated the war in Vietnam...
During the war, Colonel Thanh commanded four film-projection squads charged with showing movies to guerrillas living in the underground tunnels that crisscrossed the Cu Chi district of Vietnam. The motion-picture units were considered indispensable to the liberation effort, apparently because all war and no play made Charlie a very crabby combatant. Indeed, troops would sometimes demand to see a movie before they would consent to fight. Had the U.S. command known this, of course, it could have significantly altered the course of the war by buying up all the projectors carried by Saigon electronics stores, which was where...
...MUOI Vietnam's aging Party Secretary gets new term, proves the Politburo still runs the show...