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Although Michael Dean, 43, never saw combat, he served two tours of duty in Indochina and "was always talking Viet Nam," said a neighbor in Lebanon, N.H. Last week Dean's obsession took a tragic turn. In an apparent murder- suicide pact with Caroline Hull, his lover and the widow of another vet, Dean killed himself, Hull and her three children. "We the veterans, widows and children of veterans are a forgotten group," said a suicide note. Coincidentally, a study just published by the New England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely...
...Nicaragua." He conjured up visions of an inexorable Communist advance: "If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now." Then he invoked the greatest threat of all in the post-Viet Nam era: "We send money and material now," he warned, "so we'll never have to send our own American boys...
...people. In the past, though, he has tossed such creatures into the eddies of larger events. In A Hall of Mirrors (1967), a pot-smoking disk jockey in New Orleans stumbles into the fringes of a radical right-wing uprising. Dog Soldiers (1974) depicted California drug traffic as the Viet Nam War coming home to roost. A Flag for Sunrise (1981) showed some misfits sinking into a vortex of Central American revolution. The background stakes in Children of Light are, by comparison, inconsequential. A movie budgeted at a mere $7 million will go down the tubes if Lu Anne somehow...
This portrait of the student as conformist and joiner provides a dramatic contrast with the bitterly anti-Establishment days of the Viet Nam War and its aftermath. Then, to join a fraternity or sorority--with its typically upper- middle-class stigma and perhaps a bigotry clause or two in the charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were...
Palme first came to public attention in the U.S. in 1968 when, as Sweden's Education Minister, he marched side by side with the North Vietnamese Ambassador to Moscow at a rally to protest the American role in the Viet Nam War. As Prime Minister in 1972 he compared the U.S. bombing of Hanoi to the Nazi bombing of Guernica. That and other pronouncements so infuriated President Richard Nixon that he told the Swedes their Ambassador was no longer welcome in Washington...