Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic Senator Alan Cranston: "The gross indicators show they're doing well, but when you look closer at the educationally disadvantaged, the young, minorities and the disabled, you see some serious problems." These problems are masked because the figures lump together all 8.8 million veterans of the Viet Nam era, and fewer than one-third of them actually went to Viet Nam. Those who did tended to be the blacks, the poor and the less educated. One million of them have not been able to find jobs that keep them fully employed. Of the Viet Nam-era veterans...
Veterans Administrator Max Cleland, 36, whose right arm and both legs were blown away by a grenade near Khe Sanh, has begun pushing programs to alleviate some of the Viet vets' problems. Among the initiatives...
Psychologist Figley feels the trend toward dealing more openly with the war will be good for the disaffected veterans. After World War II, the long voyages home aboard troopships gave soldiers a chance to talk out their experiences and begin to absorb them. Viet Nam returnees often came home by jet, singly or in small groups. What is more, they came home to a society that was not anxious to hear about their traumas. Says Veteran Bill De Bruler: "After exchanging experiences, you feel cleansed in an odd way and you forget for a while that what...
...vets, one of the war's most troublesome legacies is a pervasive disenchantment, unregistered by statistics and unsolved by legislative programs. It is caused by the feelings that the service they rendered was meaningless and the nation's anguish and anger over Viet Nam were transferred unfairly to them. Not long ago, a Viet Nam veteran in Minneapolis was asked if there was anything he would particularly like to say to Max Cleland when the VA chief arrived in the city for a scheduled visit. The vet brooded for a moment, then replied, half sardonically, half plaintively...
Still furious with the Chinese for launching an invasion of its northern provinces two months ago, Viet Nam charged that both the political and economic retrenchment were the result of losses suffered in the war. Western analysts had a simpler and more plausible explanation. They tended to accept at face value Peking's claims that there had indeed been too much emphasis on heavy industry in the original development plans. Sinologists were surprised, too, by the re-emergence into public life of two old foes of Deng: Secret Police Chief Wang Dongxing (Wang Tung-hsing) and former Peking Mayor...