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...Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1988). A passionate and painstaking reconstruction of the strange career of John Paul Vann, a U.S. proconsul in Viet Nam, that casts new light on the ambiguous nature of that tragic...
...next day one U.S. unit at the hotel sighted a personnel carrier approaching and opened fire. The shots were returned. In the hotel parking lot a Spanish photographer, Juan Antonio Rodriguez, was killed and Patrick Chauvel, a photographer on assignment for Newsweek, was wounded. The shooting was a tragic mistake; the approaching vehicle was carrying American soldiers...
...gained about thermonuclear warfare, my bitter struggle to ban nuclear testing and my familiarity with the Soviet system. My reading and discussions with a fellow scientist had acquainted me with the notions of an open society, convergence and world government. I hoped that these notions might ease the tragic crisis of our age. In 1968 I took my decisive step by publishing Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom. The book rejected all extremes, the intransigence shared by revolutionaries and reactionaries alike. It called for compromise and for progress, moderated by enlightened conservatism and caution. Marx notwithstanding, evolution...
Sino-American relations are in the worst condition since before I went to China 17 years ago. One of the major reasons is that Americans and Chinese see the tragic events of June from totally different perspectives. The gap between us is totally unbridgeable. Every Chinese leader I talked to insisted that the suppression of the demonstrations was necessary and justified. They believe the American reaction was an unacceptable intrusion in their internal affairs...
Above all, it was brave of Harling to place at the center of what might otherwise have been an episodic comedy the true, tragic story of his sister, a diabetic who doomed herself to early death in order to bear a child, and his mother's struggle to come to terms with that choice. It gives the piece the dramatic focus and the emotional weight it requires...