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...classroom by a panel of TIME judges and the Washington-based Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The winners included a physics major, a musical prodigy who finished first in last year's New York Philharmonic Concerto Competition and an Air Force Academy cadet from Viet Nam who in 1975 was forced to flee Saigon in a refugee boat...
...delivery of the goods via van and aircraft. Michael Kujawski, 27, of Marquette University, last year became president of the local chapter of an organization that combats student alcoholism. Marylee James, 45, enrolled at Furman University, is a member of the Navy Reserve and an ex-nurse who counseled Viet Nam veterans before, she says, "it was chic to be a Viet...
...last week's show of force somehow seemed contrived, it was partly by political necessity. In the nuclear age, particularly after Viet Nam, the U.S. is perforce muscle-bound. It may have enough firepower to flatten the globe, yet Presidents are understandably loath to use force except under the most tightly circumscribed conditions. There is public opinion to worry about, as well as Congress and nervous allies, not to mention the Soviet Union. Even the Pentagon, still smarting from Viet Nam, is chary of waging war without unequivocal support...
...some ways Reagan has managed to break the post-Viet Nam syndrome that has paralyzed U.S. foreign policy. Yet he is hardly free of its shadow. With the significant exception of sending the Marines to Beirut on an ill-fated mission 3/ years ago, Reagan has become the master of staging small shows of force, tidy little wars carefully calibrated to win public approval without costing too many American lives...
...assign to you folks the role of pallbearers to democracy in Central America." Such attacks predictably backfired among members of Congress who saw their patriotism impugned. Accusing the Reaganauts of Red baiting, the Democrats used some scare tactics of their own, darkly warning that Nicaragua could become "another Viet Nam." In a passionate speech that climaxed the House debate, Speaker O'Neill revived old nightmares with his declaration, "I see us becoming engaged, step by step, in a military situation that brings our boys directly into the fighting...