Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home, like parentage, must be legitimized through love; otherwise, it is only a fact of geography or biology. Most immigrants to America found their love of their old homes betrayed. Whether Ireland starved them, or Nazi Germany persecuted them, or Viet Nam drove them into the sea, they did not really abandon their countries; their countries abandoned them. In America, they found the possibility of a new love, the chance to nurture new selves...
...easy. Successive waves of immigration differ, of course, and a refugee from wartime Europe does not have the same experiences as a refugee from postwar Viet Nam 40 years later. But all immigrants have certain things in common, and all know the classic, opposite impulses: to draw together in protective enclaves where through churches, clubs, cafes, newspapers, the old culture is fiercely maintained; and on the other hand to rush headlong into the American mainstream, seeking to adopt indiscriminately new manners, clothes, technology and sometimes names...
...rebuttal is less polished and sophisticated than most network documentaries. Except for an ultrasmooth on-camera host, Charlton Heston, the program is rather dry and technically clumsy. Many of its charges seem directed less at the Viet Nam series than at general policies and attitudes that, in AIM's view, contributed to the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. The program exhumes, for example, the old conservative charge that the media misled the nation about the 1968 Tet offensive and resurrects news footage of a smiling Jane Fonda visiting North Viet Nam, accompanied by mocking music...
...program cannot be completely dismissed. It has marshaled its own cadre of authorities to help make a case that the Viet Nam series, among other things, inaccurately portrayed North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh as a benign nationalist rather than a ruthless Communist; denigrated the South Vietnamese government and people; overstated the extent of drug abuse and morale problems among U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; and underplayed the brutality of the Communist regimes that took over in Southeast Asia after the U.S. departure. The Inside Story analysis lends credence to some of these complaints, though it also points out several...
...Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group. Indeed, except for its length, the AIM program seems little different from -- or more troubling than -- the "editorial replies" run frequently by local stations or guest editorials on a newspaper's op-ed page. The danger is that the Viet Nam skirmish may intensify. AIM Chairman Reed Irvine is contemplating a reply to ABC's recent three-hour documentary on the nuclear threat. Says Irvine: "I'd love to do a program showing the other side of that coin...