Word: viets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Current clients include India, China, Cuba, Viet Nam, Syria, Iran and, biggest of all, Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. A large-scale purchaser on its own, Libya has long been known to be a conduit for Czechoslovak-made arms to such terrorist groups as Abu Nidal's Fatah Revolutionary Council, Italy's Red Brigades and the Irish Republican Army...
...Looking back on the Viet Nam War, what second thoughts do you have...
...foreign policy has been contradictory. Peres proposed swapping land for peace; Shamir insisted on both peace and territory. Says Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv: "Imagine Richard Nixon and George McGovern in the same Cabinet trying to negotiate the Paris peace talks ((with Viet...
...Brien once said he would never have become a writer had it not been for his combat experiences in Viet Nam. Maybe so. For better or worse, he is fated to write about what he knows: the foot soldier's intimacy with fear and death. He did it well in If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973), and even better in Going After Cacciato...
...Things They Carried returns O'Brien to Viet Nam through a series of sketches and stories that can be loosely read as an impressionistic novel about a man's need to attach human faces to his grief. The narrator, like the author, is a 43-year-old writer named Tim. O'Brien camouflages autobiography with fiction but is not shy about personalizing his intentions. "I want you to feel what I felt," he tells the reader. "I want you to know why a story- truth is truer sometimes than a happening-truth...