Word: view
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aide watching the normally mild-mannered Glenn said later: "His lips were blue they were so tight. If I know my man, that's just going to steel his determination to insist on his view of adequate verification." If so, Rosalynn Carter's rebuke may have been a serious blunder because Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, is emerging as a substantial figure in the SALT debate. His fierce feelings about the important issue of verification might turn him against the treaty, despite his basic support for arms control. This would be a serious blow...
...fascinating difference between the two films is that The Deer Hunter presents a version of the American experience in Viet Nam that is utterly at variance with the view, widely held among intellectuals, of barbarously overarmed Americans, a nation of William Galleys, doing battle against the frail, gentle, long-suffering Vietnamese. Cimino's victims are the rambunctious guys from Clairton, blue-collar heroes who took their wholesome patriotism to Viet Nam and there found themselves alone, morally adrift among savage Southeast Asian exotics who are forever forcing them to play Russian roulette. There is no record or recollection, incidentally...
...Minh and long an expert on Viet Nam, has now called for "trials" of Communist crimes in Indochina since 1975, when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese army. Guenter Lewy, a University of Massachusetts political scientist, fired what may be the opening shot of a revisionist view of the war in his 1978 book, America in Viet Nam. Lewy examines the process of U.S. involvement and concludes that though the performance was unsuccessful, it was legal and not immoral. Leslie Gelb, now the State Department's director of politico-military affairs, makes a persuasive and subtle case...
After Viet Nam, John Kennedy's "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship ..." formula rings like the penny-bright, dangerous rhetoric that it was. The old policy of containment is, of course, long dead, as is the corollary view of a Sino-Soviet Communist monolith probing ever outward. It was precisely the containment-monolith-domino view of geopolitics that led the U.S. into Viet Nam. Says Henry Kissinger: "We've learned two somewhat contradictory things. One, that our resources are limited in relation to the total number of problems that exist in the world. We have...
...Tories also called for a change in British policy toward Rhodesia, which would bring a Thatcher government into confrontation with the Carter Administration. Although the U.S. and Britain refused to send official observers to this month's elections in Rhodesia, the Tories sent their own. If, in their view, the elections are "reasonably fair and free," the Conservatives may recognize an independent Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, and propose an end to current United Nations sanctions - against the breakaway British colony...