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Dozier, a 1956 graduate of West Point, is one of seven generals and six admirals among the 12,000 U.S. military personnel in Italy. The Arcadia, Fla., native is quiet and proper, and lived in unspectacularstyle. His career includes decorations for combat in Viet Nam and commands in Germany and at Fort Hood texas but he had been in Italy less than 18 months and was outranked at the Venona base by its Italian commander. A U.S. official speculated that his abduction was a "symbolic" act: "He's American he's a general, he's part...
...David, Tom and Danilo were the best of friends. And they all loved the same girl." David (Michael Huddleston) is a fat, funny Jew, welded by family tradition into his niche as a middle-class mortician. Tom (Jim Metzler) is tall, quiet, athletic, a reluctant ladykiller; he goes to Viet Nam and brings back a native wife and two children. Danilo (Craig Wasson) is Tesich's maturing self-image: breezing through high school and college, working in a slag mill, brushing up (almost fatally) against old American wealth, articulating his fellow Slavs' ardor for their adopted country...
...Japanese were conducting with the U.S. before Pearl Harbor. Sometimes negotiations are only empty dances of punctilio: at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, it took the delegates six months to decide in what order they would enter and be seated in the negotiating chamber; the U.S. and North Viet Nam held similarly intricate discussions about the shape of the table in Paris. Negotiations can produce their own tragedies, as Versailles did, as Yalta did. But without negotiation, things tend to fall more quickly of their own weight into patterns of force and submission, autocracy and abjectness. If the future...
...they don't want to know. They believe that all superpowers are alike." Says Felipe Gonzalez, the leader of Spain's Socialists: "The youth of Europe did not live through the experience of having the U.S. as a liberator. They are in a debate that began with the Viet Nam War. I think that the U.S. is not sensitive to this change of opinion, one which forgets the role of liberator, the Marshall Plan and so forth...
...remaining handful of all-male schools, the next few years were very hard indeed. Washington and Lee, in 1978, had to accept 70% of its applicants to fill a class of 380, and the average SAT test scores for entering freshmen were at a low point. The war in Viet Nam and pacifism at home made things even worse for military-oriented institutions. The Citadel almost closed down one of its four barracks in 1974. At V.M.I., Admissions Director Colonel William Buchanan concedes, "the bottom fell...