Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American people. The people have no commitment to the Shah. To make a decision, the people must know the truth, and the press has failed in its mission to seek and spread the truth. It has bowed to special interests. It is helping push us towards a war with Iran that would be disastrous for the whole world...
...Since the Second World War," he explained, "there has been a new military doctrine taught at the Academy in Panama. The young officers are taught that the enemy is within their own people, so weapons are now pointed inward...
Sentiments for war are running high on both sides. We must resist these tendencies because the costs to everyone are too high. We appeal to your integrity and intelligence to raise your voices against the presence of a criminal of monstrous proportions in this country, if not for sympathy for the Iranian people for the values you aspire to yourselves...
...Grissom? John Glenn? Tom Wolfe's passionate chronicle of America's entry into the space age, The Right Stuff, brings back the memories--or introduces the subject--of the time when America braced for the Soviet threat from the sky and celebrated the heroes who fought that intergalactic cold war. More than that, Wolfe describes the code by which these men lived, the hell-raising, ass-kicking, flag-waving brotherhood of The Right Stuff. It's an exuberant and satisfying look at previously unexplored territory...
...Lawrence's Nightmare. The Writer and his Circle of Friends in the Years of the Great War. By Paul Delaney. (Basic, $15.95). Has Lawrence ever had a pleasant dream? Lawrence's wartime miseries are handled skillfully in this top-notch depiction of a full generation of British writers...