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...inevitable comparisons with U.S. advisers sent to Viet Nam have shrouded the contingent in controversy and forced it to keep a low profile. The men are under orders to steer clear of combat, and are assigned only to bases outside the fighting areas. The heavy security is also due to their obvious vulnerability to assassination attempts by leftist guerrillas...
...Wolfe calls "the right stuff"-Columbia was a much needed reaffirmation of U.S. technological prowess. It came at a moment when many Americans, and much of the world as well, were questioning that very capability. The doubts grew out of a succession of U.S. setbacks: from the defeat in Viet Nam to the downed rescue helicopters in the Iranian desert, from the debacle of Three Mile Island to Detroit's apparent defenselessness against the onslaught of Japanese cars. The flaming power of Columbia's rockets seemed to lift Americans out of their collective sense of futility and gloom...
...decide to deploy the enhanced-radiation warhead known as the neutron bomb. Haig quickly sent out cables saying that no such decision had been made. Discussing the presence of U.S. trainers in El Salvador, Weinberger offhandedly referred to them as "advisers"-a red-nag word with disturbing echoes of Viet Nam. This tendency to shoot from the hip has done nothing to ease tensions between Weinberger and Haig, which surfaced during the Secretary of State's ill-fated "I am in control" speech at the White House following the assassination attempt...
...memos from both defendants' lawyers outlining reasons for pardoning them. By March 26 the pardons were signed, but the following week's assassination attempt delayed the announcement. Remarked a joyful Miller: "I certainly owe the Gipper one." Reagan, citing Jimmy Carter's pardon of "thousands" of Viet Nam-era draft evaders, explained: "We can be no less generous to two men who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation." But in granting the pardon, Reagan went so far as to dispute the jury's findings. "The record...
...cuts back and forth between the adventures and peregrinations of her characters, Alther constructs a broad social portrait of nearly two decades of American life. She covers civil rights, Viet Nam, women's lib, the sexual revolution, radical politics and back-to-earth movements. Raised in the comfortable stasis of a small Southern town, Alther's young people are woefully and often hilariously unprepared for what life in the '60s and early '70s throws their way. What is more, the tight little community they grew up in is being rattled into unrecognizability. Outside organizers have installed...