Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dying creed. Rising expectations have given way to escalating suspicions about those in power. It isn't only the Montana Freemen who believe that we have met the enemy and he is U.S. "We know we've been lied to," says Bryce Zabel, Dark Skies' co-creator, "about Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-contra." Moreover, as ID4's Emmerich notes, "every generation creates its own mythology. Now the mythology centers on the government's hiding the dead alien bodies it discovered at Roswell...
...Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with the U.S. Army, was exposed to Agent Orange, developed multiple sclerosis and died in 1980. Gloria used to send her father tapes of her singing when he was away. He once sent back a tape with a message: "One day you're going to be a great star...
Beginning in 1962, CIA officers began crossing the names of captured commandos off the pay rosters and telling their families they were dead; SOG officers continued the practice. "I think it's terrible, I really do," says George Gaspard, who as a Green Beret major in Vietnam ran a related SOG program code named Oplan-34B. "As an agent handler, that would be appalling to me to write somebody off the books that...
...confiscated American assets in Cuba. While the U.S. maintains a trade boycott against the island, hundreds of foreign companies, from Benetton to Toyota, have poured at least $5 billion into Cuba; and most U.S. companies would jump at the opportunity to invest--just as they are doing in Vietnam. Sponsored by two conservative Republicans, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, the bill enjoyed strong support among Cuban Americans and the right. President Clinton, with an eye to re-election, signed it in March...
...opponent, former Army Captain Max Cleland: "[He] plays that wheelchair up to the nth degree. He just shows people that wheelchair going and coming...It's certainly worth a lot of points." Yes, points for Cleland and minus points for Broun. Cleland is a triple amputee, wounded in Vietnam, who cannot stand or walk...