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...forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua take the rest. Since 1979 they have lost 750 planes in Afghanistan, mainly on the ground. The guerrillas now control twice as large a portion of Afghanistan as they did when they started, and the Soviets are taking a heavy toll. They know they...
...been a deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a globe-trotting troubleshooter and special aide to seven Presidents. A gifted interpreter who speaks seven foreign languages,* he helped arrange the 1970 negotiations between Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese that led to the final U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. A year later, in another secret mission for Kissinger, he took part in the preparations for Richard Nixon's historic opening to China. As an Ambassador-at-Large for the Reagan Administration, Walters has visited 108 countries. Many of these tasks were performed far from the glare of publicity. Last...
...contempt. In Europe, the word frequently conjures up everything that people fear and mistrust in Americans. It suggests unpredictable, violent behavior, a heedless and cavalier lawlessness and a kind of vigorous stupidity: a hard killer glint in the American eye, the loose cannon rolling around in the American mind. Viet Nam was a rip-roaring American cowboy adventure that turned into a nightmare. The cowboy idea does not always ^ travel well abroad. It works best on the native range...
...umbrella which folds up every time it rains." The superpowers, meanwhile, have brushed aside the U.N. in waging their bloody conflicts in Viet Nam and Afghanistan...
...Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain "So it goes" and Olympian reprimands like "Goddamn it, you've got to be kind" became convenient responses to a world that seemed out of control...