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...contra military resupply, the names of former CIA agents and assets keep appearing. Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured by the Sandinistas after his C-123K cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, had performed similar work as a CIA "cargo kicker" over Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served in Tehran as deputy CIA station chief, and the Shah took...
During the Viet Nam War, the U.S. Special Forces relied on some loyal comrades: the Montagnards, mountain tribesmen who proved to be ferocious fighters. But after the fall of Saigon in 1975, the "Yards," as their Green Beret trainers fondly called them, were left to fend for themselves in their jungle homeland. Last week, following a dangerous eight-year odyssey across hostile territory in Laos, Kampuchea and Viet Nam, some 200 Montagnard men, women and children reached...
...weight lifter, and is still devoted to fitness: he jogs every day at 5 a.m. and is an ardent skydiver. Ramos went on to earn a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. As a young officer he saw combat in Korea and Viet Nam, but it is said he has no taste for bloodletting. With his sound military record and family connections, Ramos rose to become Deputy Chief of Staff in 1981 under General Fabian Ver, a Marcos crony...
...North attended school in Philmont, N.Y., and later entered the U.S. Naval Academy. At Annapolis he was known as a "tough kid," and was brigade boxing champ. "Reckless? No," says an old classmate. "Wild? Yes. He liked to have fun." After graduation, North joined the Marines and went to Viet Nam, where he led a platoon and engaged in counterinsurgency warfare. He was wounded in combat, later winning a Silver Star and a Purple Heart...
...Vidal." But Schlesinger is playing his nimble variations on substantial themes: the awkward partnership of a free economy and government, the complexities of foreign policy for a people tempted toward both interventionism and isolationism, the paradoxes of leadership constantly answerable to the voter. Whether the subject at hand is Viet Nam or the cold war, Schlesinger is doing nothing less than attempting to measure America's behavior against America's aspirations...