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...enthusiasm reflects not only the fading of the memory of Viet Nam but the attention that the Reagan Administration has given to the defense budget. Military pay scales have increased 38% since 1980. "Before 1980," says Navy Commander Kendell Pease, "there were articles about enlisted men on food stamps. Now that's turned around...
...immediate cause of Birdy's sorry condition, in a prison-like veterans hospital, was his traumatizing experience in Viet Nam, which was not gentle on Al either. But Al's wounds are merely physical, and his plastic surgery seems to be healing nicely. Birdy's case is altogether more desperate, and the main business of the film is to explore its roots. A sociologist might point to the usual downers: poverty, loneliness and lovelessness. But that would reckon without Birdy's mysterious singularity, expressed in his obsession with the avian world...
...next week, however, the focus will be not on the suspect but on his victim. Whatever the immediate cause of the killing, Cooperman's case has already exposed a tale of sex and international intrigue. Defense Attorney Alan May argues that Cooperman, 48, was a secret agent for Viet Nam. Indeed, Hanoi has accused the CIA of masterminding the death. Cooperman's friends and relatives ridicule such allegations, but they too think the shooting was political: the professor's well-known sympathy for the Communist regime in Hanoi made him highly unpopular among Vietnamese immigrants in Fullerton, a conservative community...
Cooperman, like many college professors and students at the time, was an outspoken opponent of the Viet Nam War. But his interest in the country, which bordered on obsession, outlived America's controversial involvement. In 1977, two years after the fall of Saigon, Cooperman made the first of about a dozen trips to Viet Nam. Upon his return, he founded the nonprofit Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Vietnam, through which he publicly lobbied for normal diplomatic and trade relations with the new pro-Soviet regime...
...modest way he began to procure technological equipment for export to Viet Nam, despite the formal U.S. embargo on all but relief aid to that country. From January 1981 until November 1983, the Commerce Department issued Cooperman and his committee seven licenses to export goods to Viet Nam; all the exports were officially described as "humanitarian aid." According to records recovered from Cooperman's office, however, his purchases included such items as closed-circuit video-surveillance equipment and Apple computers. Sending Hanoi these sophisticated products would almost certainly be illegal. "The law says you cannot even export a bicycle," notes...