Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since World War II, the U.S. has supported the worst dictatorships in the world under the pretext of fighting Communism. Yet this policy has always pushed these countries into the arms of Communist nations. Iran is no different from China, Cuba or Viet Nam. Because religious people cannot be called Communists, the people of Iran are now being suppressed under the guise of modernization. Imagine where the Iranians could seek help if America did not assist them...
...troops into combat in Korea and Viet Nam with such gallantry that he was twice awarded the Silver Star, the nation's third highest combat medal. He moved easily from battlefield to classroom, from Pentagon desk to international command, gathering ribbons and rank along the way and, last year, becoming the youngest four-star general in the Army. Then, last spring, Sam Sims Walker became trapped in a bureaucratic Pentagon crossfire, and last week he resigned from the Army after more than 32 years of service-at the same time bringing into the open a battle between generals...
...employee of WBZ (Channel 4) television, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday, "I got a call at about 11 a.m. from some guy who sounded like he was not entirely serious. The caller said that a number of Viet Nam veterans were angry about the way they were treated at the Coop. He said that a bomb was going to go off at the Coop, but he could not decide when...
Agababian said Cambridge police told him that the caller had claimed he was a Viet Nam veteran capable of making a bomb, but had not mentioned the Coop's service...
That scenario for conquest could be risky for Hanoi. A full-scale attempt to take over Phnom-Penh might well bring Viet Nam into direct conflict with Cambodia's formidable ally, China. But some analysts doubt that Pol Pot can rely heavily on Peking. In the past month he has sent emissaries to China with pleas for supplementary military aid. Though he has received gratifying messages from Chairman Hua Kuo-feng ("We support your struggle"), no substantial increase in aid has been forthcoming. Diplomatic observers in Southeast Asia believe that if the Pol Pot regime should be toppled by Viet...