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...simply its geography: it lies along the eastern tier of the "crescent of crisis," which in an oil-short world has become strategically vital to both the West and the Soviet Union. Can the Soviets subjugate the Afghans indefinitely? Pentagon experts doubt that Afghanistan ever could become Moscow's "Viet Nam," pointing out that Soviet supply lines to Afghanistan are short and the local population relatively small: 14 million to 18 million...
...some explanations about documents of espionage discovered in the nest of spies." In addition, the students announced that if the hostages are tried, Vietnamese representatives will be invited to attend. They claimed that one of the hostages, Air Force Lieut. Colonel David Roeder, had flown 102 bombing missions over Viet Nam and therefore was a "war criminal...
...must decide how its strength should be applied, and if it is willing to pay the inevitably high price for applying strength. French Author Louise Weiss believes that the present American predicament began in "a search for a false popularity," a product of the chagrin over the Viet Nam years. The quest should be abandoned. Americans should recognize and accept the fact that much of world opinion runs against the U.S. now. Daniel Patrick Moynihan suggested five years ago that the U.S. should assume a role of minority opposition. Ultimately, the U.S. must appeal, as it has often done successfully...
Private First Class Paul Compella's parents still live in Torrington, Conn., and when they go past the school gym named for their son who was killed in Kien Hoa province, Viet Nam, March 14, 1968, they are burdened each time with a prideful sorrow. Paul's bronze star was melted into the plaque underneath the press box. The parents think about the world. "This is not Viet Nam," says Carmine Compella. "You see the hardware the Russians put into Afghanistan? They are after that oil. We'd have a reason if we fought this...
Bunting is an extraordinary man. He was a Marine who went to Virginia Military Institute, became first captain, then a Rhodes scholar, fought with the Mobile Riverine Force of the 9th Infantry Division in Viet Nam, and as a major taught at West Point. He left the Army with feelings of sympathetic frustration over watching good men fight a useless war in the wrong way. He became president of Briarcliff College, wrote another novel (The Advent of Frederick Giles), and moved to Hampden-Sydney in 1977. His time is spent now with his students, and with Brahms, Carlyle...