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...enrolled in state universities or community colleges, but even highly competitive Ivy League schools have bachelor's degree programs for older students. Yale has begun admitting adults on a part-time basis, and Brown has had a program for adults since 1972, originally intended for returning Viet Nam veterans. Both Wellesley and Mount Holyoke have vigorous programs for older women who want to complete a degree, prepare for new jobs or simply enlarge their horizons. Adult students have a "greater capacity," says Smith History Professor Stanley Elkins, "simply because they are older, have lived longer and have...
...President and his critics. They are joined by a common fear: that history will repeat itself. They disagree as to precisely what history is about to be repeated, but everyone is quick to raise the specter of the return of some dreaded "another." The critics see another Viet Nam here, another round of gunboat diplomacy (carried out by another Teddy Roosevelt) there. Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen under Cuban influence after a recent military...
...want to be bothered with arguing the merits of the case? You do what Congressman Sam Gibbons did shortly after the Marine massacre in Beirut. He stood on the floor of the House and declared: "I only have three words to say: Lebanon-Reagan's Viet Nam." He then sat down. He was sure he had said enough. And in a way he had. Viet Nam is the ultimate buzz word in the American political lexicon, a form of telegraphic speech so laden with ominous meaning that it is assumed to speak volumes. Gibbons' declaration was as revealing...
...accident. Those who sent the suicide bomber crashing into Marine headquarters were staging an attack, a kind of one-man Tet offensive designed to revive the feelings of demoralization that precede withdrawal. For the power of the Viet Nam memory is well known, even among those not steeped in American history. Druze Leader Walid Jumblatt, for one, has no trouble recalling and manipulating it. Jumblatt, who can be best described as a minor local chieftan, has found that he can puff himself up on American television, warn Americans to remember Viet Nam before daring to challenge him-and be taken...
...That was the last war, though the politicians (not the generals this time) are busy preparing for it still. In Lebanon everything is different: the terrain, the players, the tactics, the goals and the intentions of American leaders. But we disdain mundane details like history, geography and strategy. Viet Nam is everywhere. Every exercise in what used to be called containment-55 advisers in El Salvador, for example-is now called "another Viet Nam." If the Grenada operation had lasted more than a week, one can be sure the dreaded memory would have been hauled out yet again. Che Guevara...