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...forgotten the missing, dead and wounded of Viet Nam? Will Americans die for the wrong reasons in El Salvador? Will we use our dollars to finance a government that kills priests, nuns and schoolteachers? The U.S. is supporting the wrong side in this...
...didn't know better, I would say that you got your cover photograph from my Viet Nam scrapbook...
...judge press coverage of Central America ("Give me both barrels, don't hold back"). Kirkpatrick: "I think CBS has been particularly bad, if I may say so." The New York Times and Washington Post also got low marks from Kirkpatrick. All three, she said, "suffer from the Viet Nam syndrome." That phrase is also used by Reagan, apparently to describe a press that doesn't believe its Government and "challenges what we're doing." The President told TV Guide: "Had that been done in World War II, in behalf of the enemy that was killing American military...
...January, when CBS last devoted so much time to a documentary, the subject was Viet Nam. Ill-prepared for Mike Wallace's searching questioning, General William C. Westmoreland came off badly. In a speech two weeks ago, the general said that in any future war the news would have to be controlled to hold public support: "Viet Nam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country...
...incontro Improvviso (The Unforeseen Encounter), an "abduction" opera set in Cairo, was performed in concert version by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic in 1973. Armida, an opera seria set during the Crusades, was produced in New Hampshire last summer with the action updated to the Viet Nam War. Just a fortnight ago another major work, Orlando Paladino, was staged in Philadelphia...