Word: viets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signal a comprehensive approach would be to maintain full-fledged embassies in four far-flung corners of the Third World that have long been color-coded red on American maps: Afghanistan, Angola, Cuba and Viet Nam. By snubbing those governments in various ways, Washington is doing more than just underscoring its disapproval of their leaders; it is also stubbornly reaffirming the implication that they are minions of Moscow...
Generals and admirals for centuries have been notorious for planning to fight the last war. American military men are no different; for 45 years they have prepared for a Soviet version of the blitzkrieg. Panama, Grenada, Libya, even Korea and Viet Nam were all essentially sideshows. The Big One, if it ever came, would begin with the Warsaw Pact's tank and armored columns charging across the Fulda Gap into West Germany, starting a conflict that could escalate to a nuclear Armageddon. The effort to deter or defeat a Soviet invasion of Western Europe shaped almost everything about...
Despite America's fiscal recklessness in the 1980s, the sudden end of the cold war has provided the nation at least a modest opportunity to improve its economic health without raising taxes or cutting already anemic social spending. The nation has wasted such opportunities in the past, notably after Viet Nam. It could all too easily squander its savings again. Washington should provide leadership on this issue, not pliancy to every special-interest group. The worst outcome would be for the U.S. to beat its swords into more credit cards...
...rainmaker" who drummed up merger deals for Wall Street's Drexel Burnham Lambert, stood out as one of the most colorful takeover specialists ever to don a power tie. Nicknamed "Mad Dog" for his courage under fire, he regaled friends with tales of his jungle-patrol days in Viet Nam. He talked of his Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and four Purple Hearts. He often told colleagues that he stood to inherit a multibillion-dollar fortune from the German brewery family of the same name...
...legend of Mad Dog is collapsing faster than a junk bond. Last week the Wall Street Journal disclosed that Beck, 43, never served in Viet Nam and has no ties to any beer barons. Interviewing several of Beck's relatives and colleagues, Journal reporter Bryan Burrough discovered that Mad Dog had invented much of his past. During Beck's supposed Viet Nam service he was actually attending Florida State University. One woman who dated Beck after the breakup of his second marriage said the banker "would wake up in cold sweats, shaking," saying he'd been dreaming about Viet...