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...were compounded by a decision to dispatch the 28 planes in a "target rich" stream that gave the Syrian gunners a greater opportunity to adjust their weapons. "It's not so bad if you're the lead plane," says a U.S. pilot with experience in the Viet Nam War, "but if you're number five or eight, or worse, 28, you're going to catch hell." It seems likely that the two downed planes and a third that escaped with minor damage were hit with concentrated bursts of conventional antiaircraft or machine-gun fire, rather than...
...postwar period that creed gathered such a following and such power that it became the dominant, almost consensual, political tendency in the U.S. Viet Nam destroyed that consensus. It did something more. It destroyed the sense of equilibrium that underlay that consensus, and introduced a period of volatili ty that is with us to this day. Not only is the center fractured, but the political system now oscillates between the remaining extremes. Revulsion with Viet Nam pulled the Democratic Party to the left: to Mc-Govern in 1972, and to an abiding distrust of American power and intentions ever since...
...Minister of New Zealand from 1960 to 1972; after a series of heart attacks and strokes; in Wellington. A master of consensus politics who enjoyed debating issues with his working-class constituents, Holyoake smoothly guided his nation through the crisis of New Zealand's military involvement in Viet Nam...
...envisioned good guys and bad guys: the wholesomely, vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none of the old sweet prissiness and was not afraid of the uses of power. Wayne gave way during the Viet Nam era to Clint Eastwood, the high plains drifter with an almost reptilian indifference to death suffered or inflicted. Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; 431 pages; $50) is richly shrewd about the actuality and legend of cowboys, doing justice to both in a commentary...
DIED. Clement Zablocki, 71, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A onetime Milwaukee civics teacher, Zablocki was first elected to Congress in 1948 and, at his death, was in his 18th term. Initially a supporter of the Viet Nam War effort, he later became one of the chief sponsors of the 1973 War Powers...