Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those flaws have been fatally enlarged by recent history. The book's nameless narrator has been sent to the Malay village of Ayer Hitam to close down a U.S. consulate that has outlived the prosperity of the American-owned rubber plantations that once flourished there. The Viet Nam War is over. In literary time, it is post-Heart of Darkness and The Ugly American. The real action now takes place in far-flung Hiltons, where multinational businessmen confer in the Esperanto of global trade...
...their country, rioted in the zone. With three American soldiers and 21 Panamanians dead, President Lyndon Johnson opened talks to revise the treaty. An agreement was reached in 1967, but its details were leaked, and conservative U.S. Congressmen protested so vociferously that L.B.J., up to his earlobes in Viet Nam, backed off. Before the treaty revision could be concluded, Torrijos in October 1968 overthrew the existing government and immediately spurned the accord. Making a new treaty his major issue, he abolished political parties, seized control of the press, drove opponents into exile and saw his once prosperous economy falter. Latin...
...needed to block the treaty). Proponents are encouraged by the defection of Barry Goldwater and S.I. Hayakawa. Since Barry switched, he says that Ronald Reagan has not spoken to him. Explains Goldwater, resignedly: "I would have said that we should fight for the canal if necessary. But the Viet Nam years have taught me that we wouldn't. So we might as well hand it over." During his California senatorial campaign, Hayakawa quipped: "We stole it fair and square." He now insists that he was only being waggish. He thinks the agreement is fair and square...
...functioned as considerably more than a U.N. ambassador, traveling virtually as an alternate Secretary of State with a retinue of specialists on the region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness is his own record in the civil rights and anti-Viet Nam War movements. Whether arguing the merits of nonviolent solutions in southern Africa or assuring his listeners that Carter's concern for human rights is for real, Young is able to draw on that background to speak persuasively and authoritatively...
...once again that passions and issues are ephemeral and that, as the late Philip Rahv, an editor and longtime student of the American left, knew, radical movements in the U.S. are cyclical. Once, the generation of the New Left and counterculture believed that its youth, like the war in Viet Nam, would go on forever. It is tempting today to throw cherry bombs into the ruins of that delusion: the period seems prime for revisionism and ridicule. But to see that generation contemptuously as merely the screaming, Spock-coddled army of Consciousness III ignores the great changes it helped...