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...Viet Nam, our commitment in Lebanon is based on honorable intentions and poor judgment. The major difference is that in Viet Nam there were only two contending sides; in Lebanon there are many. If the Lebanese wish to kill one another, we must let them. It is their country and their choice...
...military. It infused Veterans Day observances last week, and was evident as Army Rangers and some of the paratroopers returned from the Caribbean. "It's great to feel wanted," Ranger Sergeant Tracy Hickman told one reporter at Georgia's Hunter Army Airfield, contrasting the bitter homecoming from Viet Nam with last week's warm reception. A post-invasion poll taken by the Washington Post and ABC News showed that 63% of Americans approve the way Reagan is handling the presidency, the highest level in two years, and attributed his gain largely to the Grenada intervention...
...students are enrolled in state universities or community colleges, but even highly competitive Ivy League schools have bachelor's degree programs for older students. Yale has begun admitting adults on a part-time basis, and Brown has had a program for adults since 1972, originally intended for returning Viet Nam veterans. Both Wellesley and Mount Holyoke have vigorous programs for older women who want to complete a degree, prepare for new jobs or simply enlarge their horizons. Adult students have a "greater capacity," says Smith History Professor Stanley Elkins, "simply because they are older, have lived longer and have...
...between the President and his critics. They are joined by a common fear: that history will repeat itself. They disagree as to precisely what history is about to be repeated, but everyone is quick to raise the specter of the return of some dreaded "another." The critics see another Viet Nam here, another round of gunboat diplomacy (carried out by another Teddy Roosevelt) there. Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen under Cuban influence after...
Boat People, whose scenario Hui based on eyewitness reports she received from hundreds of Vietnamese refugees, was the first Hong Kong movie to be shot in Communist China. That she made her film with the support of a regime hostile to Viet Nam raised eyebrows. And when Boat People was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and this fall at the New York Film Festival, it raised hackles on the neck of the left. The passions Boat People elicits testify not only to the bitterness of the worldwide debate between left and right...