Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chris Starkmann went to Viet Nam as innocent as the narrator of Platoon. In this powerful novel, the veteran bitterly recalls the death wish of Ulysses: "Would God I, too, had died there . . . I should have had a soldier's burial and praise." Instead, the madness acquired 14 years earlier has been carried home, slowly eroding his marriage, his job and his life. A soldier is most vulnerable when he feels safest, he drunkenly repeats, and in the rough country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where people have "no possibilities, no place to go," Chris comes to believe...
...this was nothing new for Secord. In his three decades of military service, he was involved in clandestine operations wherever things were hottest around the world. After seeing action as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he was attached to a CIA force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic...
Another component in Huntington's rejection seems to have been his political loyalties, though Lang denies this. A conservative, Huntington has consulted with the Pentagon, served on the National Security Council, supported the Viet Nam War and done research underwritten by the CIA -- all anathema in the liberal-leaning world of academe...
...surface, the election seemed typical for a hard-line Communist regime. Voice of Viet Nam Radio reported that balloting for a new National Assembly produced a standard 99.32% voter turnout, and the winners dutifully mouthed socialist pieties. But in fact last week's balloting may herald a new era of economic and political reform for the beleaguered Vietnamese...
Voters chose 496 National Assembly representatives from among 829 candidates. Instead of being handpicked by top party officials, many candidates were selected by grass-roots organizations at public meetings, where disastrous economic policies that have made Viet Nam one of the world's poorest countries were widely criticized. Indeed, Nguyen Van Linh, 74, the Communist Party chairman who took office last December, has called for more democratic reforms and instituted free-market innovations to spur the economy...