Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Centerpiece of the structure -- conceived by Maya Lin, who designed Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial -- is a round tabletop, 11 1/2 ft. in diameter. On it, along with the 40 names, is carved a chronology of major civil rights events, and over this flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my heart...
Rubitsky, now 72 and living in Milton, Wis., never complained. But his friends did, and so did the Anti-Defamation League and a group of Viet Nam veterans. In 1987 the Pentagon began looking into the case. Several months ago, an Army buddy gave Rubitsky the evidence he needed: a message that Rubitsky's friend had found on the body of a Japanese officer who died later in New Guinea. The note referred to "600 fine Japanese soldiers ((who)) died because of a solitary American soldier." Today Rubitsky says he is not as interested in the medal as in justice...
Rarely since the Viet Nam War had an issue provoked Australians to stage such a large and angry public protest. Late last month 8,000 citizens linked arms to form an eight-mile chain along a Queensland beach to demonstrate against a three-month-old pilots' strike that has all but crippled the * country. Said Gabrielle Gibbs, a homemaker who organized the protest: "This incredible waste of human, financial and emotional resources must be stopped...
...Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has described the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan as illegal and immoral. Similar things were said in the U.S. about the American involvement in Viet Nam, and this had a demoralizing effect on the U.S. military for many years. What impact do you see on the Soviet military...
...Will the Soviet Union build a monument to those who died in Afghanistan, like the monument for the Viet Nam War dead in Washington...