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...will the superb runners and swimmers from East Germany, one of the world's top three athletic powers, judged by medals won in past Olympics. Nor any athletes from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Laos, Mongolia or Viet Nam. Almost certainly, the Poles and Hungarians will stay home, though nothing is official yet; the Cubans are probable no-shows too. The Soviets obviously have carefully orchestrated the boycott, with one satellite after another falling into line, often a day apart. "We are going to be receiving a one-a-day bitter pill for some time," predicts Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles...
Private First Class Michael Ryan had just arrived in Viet Nam with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1966 when he and his squad were sent into an area that had been sprayed with the herbicide known as Agent Orange. Soon thereafter he lost almost 50 lbs. and developed mysterious lumps on his groin and rashes all over his body. Army doctors dosed him with penicillin and sent him back to duty. Five years later, while serving as a policeman on Long Island, N.Y., Ryan fathered a daughter. Born with multiple birth defects including deformed limbs and organs...
Ryan, last week, was among those who won, or at least reached a negotiated settlement of, their longest battle of the Viet Nam War. His family and four others acted as plaintiffs representing thousands of Viet Nam veterans and their families in a massive class action against manufacturers of the herbicide. They charged that Agent Orange caused, among other things, cancer and liver damage in many of the soldiers, miscarriages in some of their wives and birth defects in some of their children. The five-year legal struggle, which came to symbolize the bitter suffering and frustration of the veterans...
...chemical companies had surrendered to an unjustified payoff, the share prices of the five companies on the New York Stock Exchange rose after the news. Some veterans felt that their side had sold out. "This was the settlement the chemical companies were looking for," said Lee Covino, a Viet Nam veteran in New York City. "The vets had no say in this." But most seemed to agree with Frank McCarthy, president of the Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Victims. "It's an incredible start," he proclaimed. "We wanted a trust fund, and we got it without going through a trial...
Written by Journalist Don Kowet, the book is a critical analysis of a January 1982 CBS Reports show, reported by Correspondent Mike Wallace and Producer George Crile. The program accused General Westmoreland, the commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, of participating in a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in order to create the impression that the U.S. was winning the war. Kowet first wrote about the documentary in a 1982 article he co-authored for TV Guide with Reporter Sally Bedell Smith (now at the New York Times). The article...