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...fight for a civil rights bill in 1964 was a sometimes lonely road to glory. But our system is not an ideological one. It is based on flexibility, compromise. Clifford recalls Johnson as he sealed his fate in the sweltering officers' club of Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam, urging his field commanders to "come home with that coonskin on the wall." L.B.J.'s lust for victory was ultimately to defeat...
...topics they discussed included post-mortems on the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the U.S.-Soviet showdown over missiles in Cuba, the building of the Communist Wall in East Berlin and the fateful decisions to send more U.S. military advisers into South Viet Nam. As the tapes ran, Kennedy wrestled with civil rights in the South and worked with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to pressure Mississippi officials into accepting James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi...
...People's Republic of China canceled its Vietnamese development programs in 1978, the Soviet Union has supplied the Southeast Asian nation with everything from brandy to ball bearings. Since January 1979, when the Vietnamese invasion of neighboring Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia) caused most Western nations to suspend their Viet Nam aid programs, Hanoi's dependence on the Soviet Union has become near total. Today, money from Moscow is an important component of the economies of Kampuchea and Laos, and most especially of Viet Nam, which receives about $3 million a day in Soviet assistance...
...last year's grain harvest. As a result, Moscow has been cutting back on its aid to all of Southeast Asia. The Soviets were forced to reduce their 1981 grain shipments to Kampuchea by almost half, from a promised 100,000 tons to only 55,000. The price Viet Nam pays br Soviet petroleum rose from $4 to $16 per bbl. in 1981. This year, oil-import subsidies for Laos have been ended...
...This time they did not pull out. One jet hit the ground and the other three, locked into their now fatal formation, followed within a tenth of a second. They exploded in a ball of flame that one witness likened to napalm explosions he had seen in Viet Nam. Dead were Major Norman L. Lowry III, 37, the Thunderbirds' leader, and Captains Willie Mays, 32, Mark E. Melancon, 31, and Joseph Peterson...