Word: caputo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philip Caputo...
...people have "no possibilities, no place to go," Chris comes to believe he has stumbled onto enemy ground. He turns his property into a deadly perimeter, rigging it like a minefield for a final conflagration that will burn away his nightmares. In his fourth book, Pulitzer-prizewinning Journalist Philip Caputo, a Marine veteran of the Viet Nam War, conveys the bare emotions of a soldier fallen out of season with himself, as well as the harshness of life in America's northern wilderness. There, even nature offers litle solace; the aurora borealis, a ghostly disturbance flickering in the sky, appears...
...Philip Caputo, author of A Rumour of War, commanded a platoon at Danang in 1965. He describes in his book how some of the veterans tried to describe to the inexperienced Marines what it was all about, and how the new recruits refused to listen. "They had already been where we were going, to that frontier between life and death, but none of us wanted to listen to them," Caputo writes. "So I guess every generation is doomed to fight its own war, to endure the same old experiences, suffer the loss of the same illusions, and learn the same...
Even though other Latin American nations are in somewhat better shape than Mexico, they contend that over the long haul the debt burden could cripple their economies, stir social unrest and conceivably bring down their shaky governments as well. Declared Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo last week: "This debt is the epicenter in the fragility of our democratic systems...
...Britain about the islands' sovereignty after losing a war over the issue three years ago, was unhappy because the main purpose of the 8,500-ft. runway is to accommodate British military traffic. At an emergency meeting in Washington of the Organization of American States, Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo accused Britain of "fortifying the islands" (the Malvinas to Argentines) and endangering peace in the area...