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...Gunsmoke, it is hard to imagine tact. Scriptwriters for Hollywood's Top Gun didn't exaggerate. "I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot," says New Orleans Reservist and Viet Nam Veteran Major Craig Mays, 41, a burly A-10 pilot with blond hair and a Kennedyesque smile. "I'm going to be one until they take the uniform off my cold, dead body." The major's call sign is Darth Vader. Reservist Lieut. Colonel John Haynes, an Air National Guardsman from Georgia, was an F-4 "gib" (guy in back) in Viet Nam. He happily recalls "trolling" Haiphong...
...responded to such attacks with a code, guaranteeing in effect that all comics would henceforth be as mild as milk toast. But just as the publishers promised sweetness and light, the '60s began to demand "relevance." What had Superman's crime fighting ever done about civil rights or Viet Nam? Youthful eyes turned to the work of "underground" comic artists like R. Crumb, whose heroes used and acted out words that would have shocked the irremediably respectable man of steel. Even in the swinging '60s, Superman's idea of a really strong expletive was "Great Scott...
...deep sense of irony comes over Washington Correspondent Elaine Shannon when she reports, as she did for this week's cover stories, on the growing power of drug traffickers. "In the 1960s," she says, "my generation marched for civil rights and to end the Viet Nam War. We were well educated, open, idealistic, progressive." Then, she adds, "my generation discovered drugs. I saw friends die from overdoses, go to jail for drug peddling or, if they were lucky, just burn out." Shannon finds it especially painful that millions of peace-loving, privileged young Americans provide the revenues that have allowed...
...dispute took a nasty turn last month, when an anonymous letter sent to Bangkok newspapers suggested that U.S. soldiers stationed in Thailand during the Viet Nam War stole the sculpture, an allegation denied by U.S. officials. Last week a compromise seemed within reach: Art Institute officials said they are considering a proposal to hand over the carving in exchange for another Thai artifact...
...wants to quit a war that has claimed as many as 30,000 Soviet and more than 1 million Afghan lives, and sent at least 3 million Afghans fleeing to Pakistan and Iran. But Gorbachev's unstated goal -- strikingly similar to the Nixon Administration's declared policy in Viet Nam -- seems to be two-pronged: not merely to pull out Soviet troops but also to prolong the life of the Soviet-installed government of Najibullah, also known as Najib, the former secret police chief who took power...