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...growing that it may not come to be. One reason: for the first time since the days of John Kennedy, an extraordinary number of young people are aware of just how much fun it can be to serve their country, even with the low pay and long hours. Viet Nam and Watergate soured a generation on governing. The Reagan revolution holds out the prospect of change to people of all political persuasions (those in like it, those out want to be in to stop it). And big political and governmental movement is tremendously exhilarating...
...Diego. A complete flying enthusiast, Ryan created and manufactured the first U.S. high-wing monoplane (the M-1), established the first regularly scheduled year-round passenger airline in the U.S., and ran an aeronautical school that trained more than 10,000 World War II pilots. During the Viet Nam War, he provided pilotless jet spy planes and pioneered the V/STOL, a vertical-and short-takeoff-and-landing plane. At his death, he was awaiting FAA certification of his newest project, the ST100 Cloudster, a 100-h.p., all-metal sailplane...
...also hit by a potentially more costly problem last week: a $ 120 million libel suit filed by General William Westmoreland. The suit is the latest upshot of a controversial Jan. 23 documentary titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception. The 90-min. program charged that Westmoreland, while commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, joined in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to misrepresent enemy troop strength during the year leading up to the January 1968 Tet offensive. In July, CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter, responding to criticism, admitted that the documentary, produced...
...suing, win or lose, Westmoreland will probably force CBS to hand over the internal probe of the documentary ordered by Sauter. But he may also open himself to tough questions about his years in Viet Nam. Observes renowned First Amendment Lawyer James Goodale: "The proceedings will probably be long, difficult and expensive for both sides...
...darkened stage, Clarke had the actors imagine that they were on a night patrol in Vietnam and had been separated from their group. Upon encountering a Viet Cong soldier, "many of us were upset to find that we shot immediately, within the first twenty seconds," actor Jon Linden says. Adds James Lynch, another cast member. "It was pretty strange if you didn't shoot and got killed like...