Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly the first time that American good intentions had led to chaos. In The Quiet American, Graham Greene's 1955 fictionalized but accurate portrayal of early U.S. adventurism in Viet Nam, an American bomb- assassination plot aimed at corrupt South Vietnamese officers goes awry, killing innocent shoppers and children in a Saigon square. Amid the carnage, a confrontation ensues between Alden Pyle, the well-meaning but naive protagonist, and the novel's narrator, a British journalist...
Such flopping around on all fronts has become increasingly ineffective. That, in part, is why drug legalization has suddenly emerged as an imaginable alternative. The case begins with a simple proposition: all wars on drugs are doomed to fail, no matter how many Viet Nam-style escalations the authorities order. It is a simple matter of supply and demand: as long as demand exists on the scale of the U.S. craving for, say, cocaine, someone is going to supply it, legally or illegally. Significantly, this line is voiced by a growing number of public officials who were once enthusiastic soldiers...
...Oleg Sokolov, as ambassador to Manila. Sokolov has been doing his best to fan opposition to the strategically crucial U.S. naval and air bases in the Philippines. But Soviet diplomacy will not fare well in Beijing and with ASEAN so long as the Kremlin's ally in the area, Viet Nam, is hunkered down in Kampuchea and intimidating other neighbors with its bloated military power. So the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, Igor Rogochev, another polished, new-breed diplomat, has been putting out quiet but unmistakable signals to officials in Hanoi that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan might...
...both to capture the immediacy of those old crises and to give them retrospective meaning. Unfortunately, the author has a somewhat blinkered sense of self-awareness. He rightly credits the student movement with helping to raise the nation's consciousness on such issues as black civil rights and the Viet Nam War. But error, for the most part, is acknowledged through gritted teeth. Reunion contains a breathlessly credulous account of his 1965 visit to Hanoi, replete with references to the pride and dignity of the North Vietnamese. In an afterthought, Hayden admits that he was "blind to the core...
...campaigned on the premise that the voters are tired of charisma. But Bobby was able to spark excitement by articulating dreams. Given today's dearth of passion, it is no wonder that the young people who embraced politics in the '60s -- and whose faith in government was undermined by Viet Nam, assassinations and Watergate -- should remember Kennedy as a hero...