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...terrifying to realize that the next war will not be confined to Germany, France or Viet Nam, but will be fought in our backyard...
...invasion of Grenada had a cathartic effect on a public frustrated by the post-Viet Nam feeling of military impotence. By 58% to 32%, those polled said the invasion was in the best interests of the nation. Fully 64% of those who favored the action cited as the reason for their approval the simple feeling that it was "important for the nation to assert itself...
...disadvantages were compounded by a decision to dispatch the 28 planes in a "target rich" stream that gave the Syrian gunners a greater opportunity to adjust their weapons. "It's not so bad if you're the lead plane," says a U.S. pilot with experience in the Viet Nam War, "but if you're number five or eight, or worse, 28, you're going to catch hell." It seems likely that the two downed planes and a third that escaped with minor damage were hit with concentrated bursts of conventional antiaircraft or machine-gun fire, rather...
...postwar period that creed gathered such a following and such power that it became the dominant, almost consensual, political tendency in the U.S. Viet Nam destroyed that consensus. It did something more. It destroyed the sense of equilibrium that underlay that consensus, and introduced a period of volatili ty that is with us to this day. Not only is the center fractured, but the political system now oscillates between the remaining extremes. Revulsion with Viet Nam pulled the Democratic Party to the left: to Mc-Govern in 1972, and to an abiding distrust of American power and intentions ever since...
...Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1960 to 1972; after a series of heart attacks and strokes; in Wellington. A master of consensus politics who enjoyed debating issues with his working-class constituents, Holyoake smoothly guided his nation through the crisis of New Zealand's military involvement in Viet...