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...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Soong Mei-ling as Man and Wife of the Year for staunchly resisting the invading Japanese. Thirty-five years later, in 1972, President Richard Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger were chosen for their efforts to realign U.S. diplomacy and end the Viet Nam War. Each of these pairings was made up of celebrated figures who shared not only cover space but a common goal. This year's choices, Reagan and Andropov, are the first antagonists to be named jointly...
...General William Westmoreland, you write, "Fairness can be sacrificed when reporters go into a story with a preconceived thesis." Yes, it can. But fairness will not be sacrificed if that thesis is tested. And we did test it. When CBS News went into research for The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception, we talked with over 100 different sources. Many of them substantiated the charges of "cooking the books" by Military Assistance Command intelligence officers in Viet Nam during 1967 and 1968. Some did not. Both sides of that research were taken into account during the reporting, filming and assembling...
...first fighter-bombers lost to enemy fire since the U.S. stopped raids in Viet Nam. That raised the chilling prospect of U.S. air strikes' killing some of the almost 6,000 Soviet technicians who are manning Syrian ground-to-air missile sites. But both superpowers are sharply aware of the peril and are conducting quiet ambassadorial exchanges on how to avoid such consequences...
...lieutenant was a member of the 1,800-man U.S. peace-keeping force in Lebanon, and the "big babies" were the battleship New Jersey's 16-in. guns, which fired their 1,900-lb. shells last week for the first time in combat since the Viet Nam War. The New Jersey, which has been cruising off the Lebanese coast since September, entered the on-again, off-again fighting after U.S. reconnaissance planes drew fire from antiaircraft batteries manned either by Syrian soldiers or by Syrian-supported Druze fighters. The battleship hurled eleven of the big shells in its first...
...nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with his old Nam flamethrower. "You attract animals...