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...quarrelsome Communist neighbors, China and Viet Nam, were at it again last week. Ferocious fighting appeared to be underway, resulting in heavy casualties. Both sides had widely differing accounts of how it began. Peking charged that Viet Nam had attacked China's southern border. The official New China News Agency reported that Chinese frontier guards in Yunnan province had repulsed the invaders after ten hours of pitched battle. The Viet Nam News Agency, accusing China of shelling border hamlets, claimed that Chinese troops had seized strategic positions in the north of Viet...
...Congress. Mondale preaches compassion, Hart calls for "new ideas." Old liberals like Tip O'Neill support massive jobs bills, while young reformers vote to freeze spending on all domestic programs. Southern Democrats seek to contain Communism in Central America, while Northern Democrats look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam. No center holds. "The party is floundering because it lacks a vision of where it is going," says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber. "Where there is no vision, the parties perish...
With this rude awakening, the Government bureaucracy came to be seen as inflated and wasteful. The Viet Nam War made the U.S. seem weak abroad. Then Watergate soiled the presidency. The public began to lose faith in Government-and in the Democrats' activism...
...cool rationalism of such an approach is well suited to its purveyors. Those who articulate it best-like Congressmen Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Timothy Wirth of Colorado and Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Dodd of Connecticut-tend to share a generational outlook. They are the post-Viet Nam generation, liberal but nondogmatic...
...them. Jean and Mitch hold their not very companionable marriage together until the children are grown, then get divorced. Danner be comes a pretty, tense, scholarly young woman. Billy is open and decent, on the way to becoming a steady, useful man. He is drafted and sent to Viet Nam, and Danner and their parents stay home and worry...