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...documentary in effect accused the former U.S. military commander in South Viet Nam of joining in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in the months before the 1968 Tet offensive, in order to persuade other officials, and the public, that victory was in sight. Westmoreland says there was no conspiracy but a debate within Government over whether to count sympathizers as part of enemy forces. To support his position, Westmoreland last week submitted the 5 Ibs. of documents as evidence in a New York federal court. Sworn statements from Viet Nam...
...become a popular term for war ("War is peace," as the Ministry of Truth says in Nineteen Eighty-Four), but the Romans meant much the same thing by the term Pax Romana. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace," protested an English nobleman quoted in Tacitus. Viet Nam brought us new words for the old realities: soldiers "wasted" the enemy, some "fragged" their own officers, bombers provided "close air support." Even the CIA contributed a verbal novelty: "termination with extreme prejudice...
...controversy between the President and his chief economist was disturbingly reminiscent of the dispute in 1966 between President Johnson and his Council of Economic Advisers. Council Chairman Gardner Ackley argued that taxes had to be raised to pay for the Viet Nam War, but Johnson would not hear of it. He later changed his mind and signed a tax-increase bill in 1968, but the delay was a costly mistake. Many economists believe it helped unleash the inflationary spiral that U.S. policymakers have been battling ever since...
...Viet Nam: A Television History (PBS). With its painstaking marshaling of detail, this 13-hour documentary was television as the first draft of history. It was, by turns, poignant and chilling and never blinked...
...arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the new year with a public television, cross-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and "the first media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with the "negative aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage...