Word: viets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ronald Reagan's greatest service to the world has been his success at harnessing the American spirit [NATION, Nov. 19]. He has reawakened an awareness of human potential in a land that was infected by Watergate, Viet Nam and the Iranian hostage situation. America is back, and all the world now recognizes...
...recorded by history," says Revel, while totalitarian reality "is what Soviet leaders are preparing to do now" in the way of promised reforms or concessions. Memories of capitalism's Great Depression endure, while the deaths of millions during forced Soviet collectivization in the same period do not. Viet Nam remains fresh in the mind; the Marxist bloodbaths of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia during the late 1970s...
...blame," bent on fostering a one-sided notion of historical guilt. According to those who hold this view, everything that is bad, especially in the Third World, results from forces in the "rich" - meaning capitalist -democracies. Thus any Western attempt to resist Communist aggression, as in Angola or Viet Nam, arouses intellectual confusion and paralysis. Says Revel: "There was a time when you were an imperialist if you invaded an alien territory and imposed on independent peoples an authority they rejected. Today, you are an imperialist if you oppose such aggression...
...create the nationwide food-stamp program. His campaigns were noted for their thrift. Expenses often totaled less than $20-for stamps to send "thank you" letters to people who had, unasked, circulated his reelection petitions. Aiken became famous for suggesting in 1966 that the solution to the Viet Nam War was for President Johnson simply to declare the U.S. the winner and then retreat...
...that he had concealed crucial information from President Johnson and the Joint Chiefs, Westmoreland pointed out that he did not report directly to them; his "bosses" were Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, the commander of U.S. armed forces in the Pacific, and Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam. Moreover, Westmoreland said that on several occasions he had discussed with Admiral Sharp the disagreement among intelligence sources over the significance of the nonuniformed cadre...