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...mature appreciation of themselves. They exhibited last week something of the sweet, intense idealism that they have demonstrated as the Olympic torch has made its way across the U.S. to Los Angeles, and some of the mellowed fervor that they felt on Memorial Day when an Unknown from the Viet Nam War was installed at Arlington National Cemetery. Patriotism seemed finally to transcend politics: the flag wavers last week were Mondale Democrats and Reagan Republicans and political agnostics...
...young to fight on Dday; yet I fought in another war some 20 years later, half a globe away from Normandy [WORLD, June 18]. We had no Dday, but we had Tet. I have told my daughter I have no desire to return to Viet Nam. I wonder if history and world leaders will award us similar accolades on our 40th...
Today the invasion has become for many Israelis what the Viet Nam War became for many Americans: something to be ashamed of, something not talked about. Morale is low among some troops in Lebanon, both because they feel the hostility of the region's inhabitants and because they feel they lack support at home. "We are slowly becoming the forgotten people," says an Israeli colonel, fresh from a tour of duty in Lebanon. "We fight there aware that the Israeli public does not back...
Last year the company's profits jumped 25%, to $58.7 million Perot, 54, a man of military demeanor, established at EDS a corporate culture based on formality, patriotism and performance. In 1979 he dispatched a former Viet Nam commando and a group of executives on a defiant rescue of two EDS officials being held captive in Tehran. The successful exploit was chronicled by Author Ken Follett in the bestselling On Wings of Eagles...
...that bicker interminably over farm budgets and milk prices, customs duties and value-added taxes. Economic growth for Western Europe will average only about 2.5% this year, or just half the U.S. rate. Europeans who in the mid-'70s looked on the U.S. as a nation weakened by Viet Nam, Watergate and economic stagnation now marvel at the fact that Americans have created 13.2 million new jobs in the decade following the first oil shock in 1973, while Europe has lost 1.5 million. Adding to the malaise is Europe's realization that it is losing ground to Japan...