Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin was U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam from the summer of 1973 until Saigon's capture by Communist troops in April 1975. He was later criticized, most recently by former CIA Officer Frank Snepp in his book Decent Interval, for mishandling the evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese supporters from Saigon. Soon after Martin returned to Washington, he retired...
...Sheer nonsense," retorted Martin to speculation that he was preparing a defense. Last week from the Winston-Salem hospital bed where he is recovering from surgery for lung cancer, Martin also maintained that keeping the papers secret is no longer required by national security. "Viet Nam is over," he said. "There is nothing that could possibly hurt the security of the United States. Here is a personal, single collection of communications dating back to the days of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. They would be of value to future historians...
...different and resembles the passionate, unthinking hostility that greeted powered looms, steam engines, railroads, automobiles and other technological advances. Much of the antipathy is emotional, the product of a "Hiroshima mentality" that equates nuclear power with bombs and seeks to ban both. Since the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, resistance to nuclear power has become the new crusade for many members of a society that otherwise lacks compelling causes. Nuclear power is an inviting target for those who revolt against bigness-big science and technology, big industry that must build and manage reactors, big government that must safeguard and regulate...
...basic of institutions, the family. The attack is every bit as relentless, unfair and "tasteless" as Altman's devastation of the military was in M*A*S*H. Although the family is certainly undergoing change and questioning, the director does not have a national mood of disgust (which Viet Nam provided for the earlier picture) to support him. All he has is his own disarming skill as a moviemaker to keep audiences in an accepting mood...
...long-term scientific studies of Agent Orange's effect on Vietnam's population are still underway, Vietnamese doctors have reported significant increases in liver tumors, miscarriages and deformed children--especially those born with cleft palates, a birth defect observed with lab animals. Professor Ton That Tung, director of the Viet Duc hospital in Hanoi, published papers documenting a high incidence of chromosome damage among people in sprayed areas...