Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student protests in China remind you of the civil rights movement in the U.S. during the Viet...
...were trying to stop a policy and didn't succeed. We raised consciousness, but we didn't stop the war. We stopped its further escalation. We stopped the further American commitment. Nor did we change sufficient minds and hearts in America so that operations similar to that in Viet Nam could not take place in Central America. These Chinese students seem ready to change very fundamental policies in China. It's something -- I can't get over...
...dozen Soviets landed in Washington last week, but they were not mere tourists. Veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, they came through an exchange that has also taken some 50 American Viet Nam veterans to the Soviet Union. The program has achieved profound communions between men who thought of themselves as enemies. In Moscow, after a Soviet vet ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were...
Last week Danny Reed took Igor Morozov, 23, to the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. They found the name of Reed's friend Ivan Smith, killed in 1965. Morozov tenderly ran his fingers over the engraved name and left a carnation there. The two veterans embraced, then walked away...
...good times Baker refers to in his title are from 1947, the year he joined the Baltimore Sun, until 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated. Yet to come were full-scale war in Viet Nam, civil unrest, Watergate, gas lines, stagflation, and the proliferation of junk food and junk politics. Unsurprisingly these not-so-good times provided Baker with his best material as a columnist. But as a memoirist he seems to be finding that Russell Baker is a tough act to follow, especially if you are Russell Baker...