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...Navy whites, carried Debra Winger off into the celluloid sunset in An Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
...only is the military standing tall again, it is staging a remarkable comeback in the quantity and quality of the recruits it is attracting. Recruiters, once denounced by antiwar students as "baby killers" and barred from campuses, are welcomed even at elite universities. ROTC programs that faltered during the Viet Nam era, when protesters were fire bombing their headquarters, are flourishing again. The military academies are enjoying a steady increase in applications. Says Colonel Manley Rogers, director of admissions for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: "If someone wishes to complete his basic training by Christmas...
...Bretton Woods arrangement worked smoothly for some 20 years, but by the late 1960s it was coming apart. The problem was that large American balance of payments deficits, caused by factors that ranged from rising U.S. imports to hefty outlays for foreign aid and the Viet Nam War, were creating a huge dollar glut abroad. By the end of 1970, foreign countries held some $36.4 billion in dollars, far more than could be redeemed out of U.S. gold reserves, which had slipped to just $11 billion...
That $120 million libel suit by General William Westmoreland against CBS and Mike Wallace might well turn into an acrimonious debate about how the Viet Nam War was lost and why. "There is no way left for me," said Westmoreland in suing "to clear my name, my honor and the honor of the military." However a court later decides, any viewer who saw the CBS broadcast in January 1982 probably remembers most vividly a nervous Westmoreland-under tough questioning by Wallace-squirming, licking his lips, answering falteringly. The lesson: never go on camera with Mike Wallace unless you are well...
During President Kennedy's term, the agency sponsored the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion and initiated a paramilitary operation in Laos that became a sustained "secret war" against the Communists. Throughout the 1960s, the CIA ran clandestine operations in Viet Nam. The most ambitious of these was the Phoenix program, a long-term coordinated attack against the civilian leadership of the Viet Cong that resulted in the murder of 20,000 people...