Word: viets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Judging the temper of a President is tricky business. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara grew weary and disillusioned over the Viet Nam War. He brooded about resigning, then began to mention it to friends. Lyndon Johnson, who had called McNamara his right arm, wanted to listen to none of this resignation nonsense-up to a point. But then one day in the winter of 1967 L.B.J. startled everyone, especially McNamara, by accepting his resignation. McNamara's mind told him resigning was right, but his heart was troubled. Somehow the resignation was not meant to have been handled just that...
...Viet Nam veterans are still fighting for help
...military instructors and $25 million in hardware to the tiny Central American nation. Almost overnight, scores of television, radio, newspaper, wire service and magazine reporters from all over the world descended on the capital city of San Salvador. Soon there were suggestions that El Salvador could turn into another Viet Nam. One reminder of Viet Nam was the press itself. Television crews chased after combat footage, and correspondents clutched their microphones in the jungle as puffs of smoke appeared in distant treetops...
Compared with Viet Nam or even Nicaragua, the fighting was light. Even so, competition among the networks was as ferocious as a TV ratings war, and some correspondents attributed it to just that. With Walter Cronkite's retirement from the anchor position at CBS Evening News, the scramble for viewers has been more intense than usual. Admits ABC World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick: "Without Cronkite on the scene, people are sampling...
According to his lawyers, Peter L. Krutschewski, 35, was "the most decorated helicopter pilot of the Viet Nam War" and "the oil genius of Michigan." According to federal prosecutors, he was also a big-time narcotics importer who smuggled $15 million worth of marijuana from Colombia to Gloucester, Mass., in 1975. During his trial in U.S. district court in Boston last year, Krutschewski did not deny the charges, but asked to be acquitted on grounds that he was temporarily insane, a delayed reaction to the stress of combat. His effort failed and Krutschewski, who runs an oil and gas exploration...