Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late White. The elders among the geese -- Arthur, the old gander, and Jezebel, the goose -- are often featured in Wiggin's Aesop-like bimonthly column. Once a "mover and a shaker," he steered the Washington Post's coverage of every crisis from the Berlin Wall to the Viet Nam War. No more. "You can't flatter yourself in the belief that you can leverage the world from the perimeter of Ellsworth, Me.," he says. "But I enjoy rural life a lot better than I do big cities. I'm at home in this environment." Happiness, he says...
Looking for an exotic vacation spot? Try a package tour to the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, now leaving from San Francisco...
Since last April, several hundred Americans have picked an unlikely vacation spot: Viet Nam. Among the travelers on one recent package tour was Paul Witteman, TIME's San Francisco bureau chief. A report on his adventures follows...
More broadly, Viet Nam taught America something about its fallibility. The U.S. may have overlearned the lesson, but it is an instruction that at least < tends in the right direction. Fighting Viet Nam, the U.S. squandered resources it should have devoted to its real international struggles, against Japan, Germany and other economic competitors, against poverty and other problems at home. Those who took the nation into the fetid business of Viet Nam did not look at the real world and see the real dangers to America, the economic Pearl Harbors...
Cover: Photograph of U. S. soldiers in Viet Nam by AP, Janis Joplin by David Gahr, Coretta King by Bob Fitch -- Black Star, and Robert Kennedy by Steve Schapiro -- Black Star