Word: viets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Camp Pendleton, where helpful Marine buddies polished some of the rough edges off his English, Raff was sent to Viet Nam in December...
...BENNING GA. AN ARMY OFFICER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE DEATHS OF AN UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF CIVILIANS IN VIET NAM IN 1968, POST AUTHORITIES HAVE REVEALED...
...press. According to A.P. General Manager Wes Gallagher, who concedes that A.P. was "derelict" in not following up the story itself, the news service did not receive "a single call from an individual paper or from broadcasters" requesting additional information. And so one of the biggest stories of the Viet Nam War -the massacre at My Lai-remained dormant for another two months...
...British press showed more initial interest in the massacre story than the U.S. press. So did British politicians. But while some of them used it to attack the U.S. and its involvement in Viet Nam, one left-wing Labor member allowed that it was "to its great credit" that the story was revealed "in the American press in the first place." He was perhaps too kind...
...show itself does not show signs of all the strain. The humor is not only more risqué than in years past, it also has raised the Smothers brothers' fallen torch by tackling such heavies as the U.S. military establishment, the ultraright wing, Viet Nam, marriage, homosexuality and organized religion. But what is to become of Laugh-In once the old gang is gone? Newcomers are already being broken in, including a dumb redhead named Pamela Rodgers and an energetic Negro named Teresa Graves. And there's always Rowan and Martin (remember them?). But the magic of their...