Word: viets
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...forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua take the rest. Since 1979 they have lost 750 planes in Afghanistan, mainly on the ground. The guerrillas now control twice as large a portion of Afghanistan as they did when they started, and the Soviets are taking a heavy toll. They know they...
...been a deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a globe-trotting troubleshooter and special aide to seven Presidents. A gifted interpreter who speaks seven foreign languages,* he helped arrange the 1970 negotiations between Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese that led to the final U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. A year later, in another secret mission for Kissinger, he took part in the preparations for Richard Nixon's historic opening to China. As an Ambassador-at-Large for the Reagan Administration, Walters has visited 108 countries. Many of these tasks were performed far from the glare of publicity. Last...
...Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain "So it goes" and Olympian reprimands like "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind" became convenient responses to a world that seemed out of control...
...more circumspect in allowing other citizens to make their views about Soviet policy known. Before Gorbachev's arrival, thousands of Parisians took part in demonstrations protesting the treatment of Soviet Jews and the state of human rights not only in the U.S.S.R. but also in such client states as Viet Nam and Afghanistan. While Gorbachev and his wife attended their Elysee dinner, more than 1,000 people paid about $2.50 each to attend a screening of the U.S. movie Sakharov and to hear speeches by prominent emigres. Police arrested about 30 demonstrators, including Soviet Mathematician Leonid Plyushch, who defied...
DIED. Charles Collingwood, 68, debonair CBS radio and television correspondent who over four decades covered World War II, the White House and Viet Nam; of cancer; in New York City. Collingwood joined CBS in 1941 as part of Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's London team. He was the network's first U.N. correspondent and the first U.S. television newsman to visit North Viet Nam. In 1963 he won a Peabody Award for his televised tour of the White House with Jacqueline Kennedy...