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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...
...Panama, as in Viet Nam, the Law of Unintended Consequences hangs over U.S. policy this week like a pall of smoke after the explosion of a misplaced bomb...
Hollywood loves a gimmick -- and too often loves it to death. One year there are three movies about gallant farm women battling fate and fortune; the next it's comic-book heroes saving the world or muscle-bound hulks trying to write a different ending to the war in Viet Nam. This year's flavor is a gentle fantasy about body switching: the young and old changing places with supposedly comic results. But 18 Again!, Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son were more frantic than comic, and it remains for Big, the last out of the gate, to show...
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...