Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personal favorite was a hypnotic version of "Goodnight Saigon," Joel's ode to the Vietnam veteran, which began with the pounding sounds of helicopters and combined searchlights that swept the audience with Joel's solemn piano chords. Not a cheery moment, but a moving...
...Harvard biochemist was honored last week by one of the nation's largest scientific bodies for helping rebuke U.S. government claims that the Soviet Union used biological weapons in Southeast Asia during and after the Vietnam...
...Khmer Rouge killed about 600,000 Cambodians--one-sixth of the population--during its rule from 1975-78, said Nayan Chanda, senior associate partner of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978 but has recently withdrawn its troops from the country...
During the Sixties President Lyndon B. Johnson tried to fight a war in Vietnam and a "War on Poverty." He couldn't do both. Now, with more money and innovative ideas, we can undo much of the neglect of the past 50 years...
Fein complains that Chomsky and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University were not addressing their "area of expertise." What are Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Beit-Hallahmi, a psychologist, doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including Chomsky, and, for that matter, many leading supporters of Israel. Beit-Hallahmi, who appeared on WBGH's "Public Television Evening News" as an expert (along with Harvard's Nadav Safran), has written and lectured extensively on Israel's odious ties with South Africa...