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...main points with living, on-the-premises examples. Near the end of his address, as proof that "anything is possible in America," Reagan introduced two special guests seated with wife Nancy in the visitors' gallery: Jean Nguyen, 21, a cadet at West Point whose family fled Viet Nam as refugees in 1974, and "Mother" Clara Hale, 79, a Harlem social worker who specializes in the care of heroin-addicted infants born of drug- abusing mothers. The President had scouted both of these "American heroes" himself: he read about Hale in a magazine and noticed Nguyen in a brief TV appearance...
...Ogarkov, a bomb or two would hardly annihilate a country like China, and the Chinese, with their vast population and deep knowledge and experience of guerrilla warfare, would fight unrelentingly. The Soviet Union would be mired in an endless war with consequences similar to those suffered by America in Viet...
...reasonable expectation of congressional and public support, which are more restrictive than those of Secretary of State George Shultz. Some critics complained that by Cap's criteria, U.S. power would be unsheathed only in guaranteed no-lose situations. In part the speech was the military's requiem for Viet Nam. But viewed in another way, which Weinberger doubtless did, it was also a warning to reserve the use of armed force to occasions worthy of Churchillian fire and vision...
...never lost faith in the Galaxy Electra was Allen Heasley, 49, of Coconut Creek, Fla., a veteran charter pilot. He had flown the Navy version in Viet Nam, his wife Dorothy said last week, and the Electra was his "favorite plane...
...seven albums that grossed worldwide upwards of $150 million. Fogerty wrote and sang nine Top Ten singles in a period of three years. He had served a hitch in the Army Reserve in 1967, and Run Through the Jungle and Fortunate Son may have been the first songs about Viet Nam that sounded as if they could have been sung by soldiers as well as peace marchers...