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Opposition to government intervention in individual lives has always been a pillar of conservative thought. In the 1960s and '70s, while liberals agitated for federal intervention on civil rights and the Viet Nam War, conservatives felt smothered by a leftist tyranny of activism. The roles have now reversed. As the New Right presses its case against pornography and homosexual activities, liberals argue that this amounts to unwarranted government intrusiveness into the homes of private citizens. There are, of course, distinctions among the issues, yet the sea change reveals the inherent contradictions in the way Americans feel about Government. As Gunnar...
...photographers for this week's centennial coverage. He arranged for locations with the Navy, Coast Guard and White House, plus the states of New York and New Jersey. The planning paid off. From the New Jersey side of the harbor, Ted Thai, who immigrated to the U.S. from Viet Nam in 1973, snapped the four-page fireworks vista on Friday night. Photographer Neil Leifer was on Governors Island for the cover photo, taken after the torch- lighting ceremony Thursday. He caught the Operation Sail scene the following morning from a helicopter. A sea-land relay team rushed all the film...
...once a placid pond where Western powers could splash contentedly, encircled by a ring of friendly nations. The Philippines were American. Viet Nam (Indochina then) was French. Singapore was British. Indonesia belonged to the Netherlands. Then, after World War II, the slow move toward regional independence began. Today many of the small countries that dot the Pacific are fiercely nationalistic. Yet, at least for now, most of them remain closely allied with the West...
Though the U.S. maintains very tough trade sanctions against such countries as Cuba, Viet Nam, Kampuchea, Libya, North Korea and Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration opposes any similar action toward South Africa. So far, Washington has banned the sale of arms, oil and certain police equipment to South Africa, withdrawn from sports and cultural exchanges, curtailed government loans and stopped the sale of Krugerrand gold coins in the U.S., but Reagan opposes the adoption of additional measures. Moreover, the Administration argues that America's ability to influence the Botha government's policies is marginal, even though the U.S. is South Africa...
Even among Communist regimes, Viet Nam has long been known for the unchanging roll call of its top ranks. That reputation abruptly changed last week when Radio Hanoi announced that eight Cabinet ministers in the Pham Van Dong government, which has been in power since the unification of North and South Viet Nam in 1976, had been either fired or reassigned. It was the biggest government shake-up in Hanoi since the Communists came to power in North Viet...