Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making heroes out of deserters. " So says Lieut. Commander Michael Christian, a Norfolk-based former Viet Nam prisoner of war, who vows that he is ready to resign from the Navy in protest. "The price of honor seems pretty cheap this year." Air Force Colonel George Day, another former Viet Nam P.O. W. now stationed in Florida, is ready to pack up his war medals, including the Medal of Honor, and ship them all back to Washington...
Coming from diametrically opposed viewpoints, these clashing voices illustrate the dilemma facing President-elect Carter as he prepares to carry out his campaign pledge to grant some kind of pardon to young Americans who evaded or abandoned service in the Viet Nam War. So far, these rising emotions are based only on what the pro-and anti-pardon groups think Carter will do. He expects to make his decision this week, but does not plan to reveal it until he takes office...
Savimbi insists that he is not fighting to overthrow Neto's government. He says, "The real enemy is Cuban colonialism. The Cubans have taken over the country, but sooner or later they will suffer their own Viet Nam in Angola. We are perfectly willing to have a dialogue with the M.P.L.A. and form a national unity government of Angolans. But the Cubans must leave first. Then we will build true African socialism...
This year audiences had better duck and hold their ears because just about every conflict but the War of Jenkins' Ear will be playing at the neighborhoods. Leading the attack is Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Viet Nam War itself. Loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse is about a mad Green Beret commander, played by Marlon Brando, who wages his own war in a remote Vietnamese province. Shooting in the jungles of the Philippines has been rather hellish for the cast-which also includes Robert Duvall and Martin...
COMBAT. Though they have traditionally been popular in Hollywood, war movies were eclipsed for a decade or more by the divisive reality of the war in Viet Nam, seen live and in color every night on the evening news. Now, with the fall of Saigon a receding memory, war films are staging their own kind of blitzkrieg. Toral Tora! Tora!, the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora...