Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nine, who that destroyed draft records in 1968; the Harrisburg Seven, charged in 1971 with plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger; the Plowshares Eight, who attacked nuclear missiles with hammers in 1980. Berrigan, 61, is still an outrider of the Roman Catholic peace movement, which has shifted its protests from Viet Nam to the arms race. Berrigan, a former Josephite priest, was excommunicated after marrying a Sacred Heart nun, Elizabeth McAlister, in 1973; she is serving a three-year prison sentence for vandalizing a B-52 bomber. The couple try to alternate prison terms to care for their three children...
...Dellinger. "It was like going to a football game--you went down to Washington for a demonstration," he says. Dellinger was a defendant in the uproarious Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, charged with trying to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. But his pacifism began long before Viet Nam: he was an ambulance driver with the Quakers in the Spanish Civil War, and he went to prison as a draft resister during World War II. He is still at it, planning a demonstration in front of the White House on April 22 to protest Reagan's policy...
Sudden illuminations occur throughout the collection. In London, an anti-Viet Nam protest is "something like a medieval carnival in a modern setting, with everybody changing places, the fool becoming king for a day . . . the police merging with the populace and even putting on false beards. But no more than a carnival did it 'solve' anything." Vladimir Nabokov, she notes, treats the Russian language "as a national treasure the usurper Bolsheviks appropriated from him, to turn over to the rabble." She ponders the absence of important fiction in prewar Germany: "Common sense tells you the way things are, rather than...
...forces from a conflict with a Soviet proxy and accepted a cease-fire that left thousands of Communist insurgents far beyond their legal borders, in place for an eventual onslaught. By the time the 1973 Paris accords were signed, any prudent politician might have had enough doubts about South Viet Nam's survival to start shifting blame to others for having "lost" an ally. Hawks like Nixon assailed doves for cutting military aid. The doves replied that they were facing up to the reality of the hawks' failure on the battlefield...
...version of what happened in his memoir RN (1978); in two books about superpower conflict, The Real War (1980) and Real Peace (1984); and in No More Vietnams, published this month (Arbor House; 237 pages; $14.95). The compact volume serves four purposes: 1) to retrace American involvement in Viet Nam by recounting, often disapprovingly but also with some sympathy, decisions made by his predecessors stretching back to Harry Truman; 2) to defend Nixon's own record, sometimes more emphatically than in his muted memoir; 3) to reassert the implacability of Communist adversaries and the consequent need to maintain a potent...