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...favor that President Lyndon B. Johnson inadvertently did for Nixon. In 1966 the former Republican Vice President was gadding about (with Aides Pat Buchanan and William Safire in tow) trying desperately to get some national attention, when one day he had the good luck to say something about Viet Nam that angered L.B.J. Johnson lashed out at Nixon as a "chronic campaigner" who "never did really recognize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government." The result, as Theodore H. White recounts in The Making of the President: 1968, was that "Nixon was, overnight, front...
DIED. Xuan Thuy, 72, top-ranking North Vietnamese Communist diplomat, a former Foreign Minister (1963-65) and most recently vice chairman of Viet Nam's National Assembly, who served for more than three decades as a spokesman for his country in international forums, notably as chief delegate to the 1968-73 Paris peace talks with the U.S. and South Viet Nam and then as chief deputy to Le Duc Tho in the secret sessions that led to the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina; after a heart attack; in Hanoi. To former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who faced him across...
...from Tarzan to Shane, and his Vietnamese and Soviet foes are updated versions of the malevolent Japanese and Germans from World War II films. The cheers that erupt in the theater as the body count soars are coming largely from young moviegoers whose only previous encounter with Viet Nam may have been a question on The Hollywood Squares. "The movie doesn't have a lot to do with Viet Nam and how we felt when we were there," says Josiah Bunting III, a Viet Nam veteran who is now president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. "It's impossible...
...more ominous messages in the film's popularity. They contend that it reflects a growing antiCommunist fervor and could help make military conflicts in Nicaragua or elsewhere more acceptable at home. Others argue that the film is serving a legitimate therapeutic function. "We're in the process of assimilating Viet Nam into our American experience," says Henry Graff, professor of history at Columbia University. "Pictures like Rambo allow us to think it through 20 years later without the pain of the casualty lists before us." Stallone is impatient with critics who call the film reactionary. "So it's a right...
...broadcasting maxim, some morning viewers watch whatever station they left the dial on the night before. The show has also profited from hitting the road. Pauley and Co-Host Bryant Gumbel broadcast the program live from Rome for a week in early April, then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What...