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Kissinger's attention should be called to the fact that we became militarily involved in Indochina during the Eisenhower Administration, not, as he implies, under Kennedy. We began sending arms, equipment and military advisers to South Viet Nam in the 1950s. The first U.S. soldiers were killed by the Viet Cong in 1959. Thomas J. Carraher Norfolk...
Henry Kissinger still loves to mystify and impress with dogma he propounds to be true. Historians will not buy his arguments that the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, the anti-Establishment groups and the antiwar protesters were responsible for our defeat in Viet Nam. It is as if he and President Nixon were mere helpless spectators during this period of national crisis. The moral suasion required of our leaders to pull America through those last years of the Viet Nam War was lacking, both from Nixon and Kissinger...
...reduce the awesome and frightening nuclear arsenals of the superpowers. This new awareness of the dangers of nuclear war cuts across traditional political boundaries. Advocates of a bilateral freeze on the development and deployment of nuclear weapons include some peacenik activists who led protests against U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War a decade ago. But the new movement is far more broadly based; it includes more bishops than Berrigans, doctors and lawyers with impeccable Establishment credentials, archconservatives as well as diehard liberals, and such knowledgeable experts as retired Admiral Noel Gayler, former director of the supersecret National Security Agency...
...Since its release on March 12, it has demolished the more expensive competition, pulling in $8 million its first weekend. Next week moviegoers will be able to see yet another facet of Pryor when Some Kind of Hero opens. In it he plays the seriocomic role of a Viet Nam vet who tries to adjust to the apathy and red tape he finds back home...
...Davis, who won both praise and condemnation for two previous documentaries: The Selling of the Pentagon, a 1971 CBS special describing the methods by which the military promotes itself within the U.S.; and Hearts and Minds, a 1975 film examining the origins and consequences of the American involvement in Viet Nam. The Selling of the Pentagon won an Emmy, Hearts and Minds an Oscar, but both were also criticized as simplistic, distorted and unfair to some of the people they depicted. Middletown is likely to become just as controversial. Indeed, Xerox, which provided $600,000 of the program...