Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There has been a tendency on the part of the American media to downplay both the Sandinistas' repression and the threat to their neighbors. Part of this has to do with the whole Viet Nam syndrome, the press worrying about how "we're going to end up on the wrong side of history" or "we're going to get a little bit pregnant here." There has also been a little too much equanimity, a tendency to say, "So what? What difference does it make?" Well, what difference does it make who is in charge of little Cuba? It makes...
...Congress that ultimately gave up on the Viet Nam War, rejecting the pleas of a Republican Administration for more military aid. It was Congress that suspended funds for the rebels fighting in Nicaragua, much to the dismay of the Reagan Administration. But in an emerging new debate, the roles seem to have been reversed. A drive has begun in Congress to provide military aid for the resistance forces opposing the occupation of Kampuchea by Vietnamese Communists, and now it is the Reagan Administration that is reluctant--at least...
...astronauts who have waited more than a decade to go on a space flight were disgruntled by Garn's mission. The Senator, however, has impressive flight credentials. The son of a World War I pilot, he began flying at 16. As a naval pilot Garn flew transport missions in Viet Nam. All told, he has logged some 10,000 hours of flying time--more than any of NASA's 90 active astronauts except Air Force Colonel Joseph Engle. Garn is also in superb physical condition; he carries a muscular 170 lbs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame...
Many of the reservists were well prepared for the two weeks of maneuvers. Most were of Hispanic origin, almost two-thirds speak Spanish, and many were Viet Nam veterans. Hondurans from Las Hormigas, a village near the Texans' temporary base (dubbed "the Alamo"), responded with surprise and delight when they heard the foreign soldiers speaking Spanish. "I was asked if we were in the Mexican army," Sergeant Raul Ortiz, 35, a Viet Nam veteran, laughingly told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. The men who had seen action in the war were excited by the prospect of a sham battle. "These...
International Editor Karsten Prager was in Saigon frequently from 1965 to 1968. He looks back on his Viet Nam years with both pain and gratification. "We all left something there, and we all gained something," says Prager. "As journalists, we suspected that we would never get a more dramatic story than Viet Nam. We frequently asked ourselves what could ever top it. Nothing ever...