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...ebullient surge did not happen overnight, but in fits and starts from the mid-1970s onward. After Viet Nam and Watergate, America seemed to have lost much of its confidence and moral energy. The nation's mood, as measured...
Version 1: The scene is a clearing in Nicaragua controlled by the anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas. "We're going on a rescue mission," shouts Dana Parker, a captain in the Alabama National Guard, as he jumps into a green Hughes 500 helicopter, joining James Powell, a Viet Nam veteran and flight instructor from Memphis. They take off with a contra pilot at the controls. The two Americans are unarmed. The chopper's rocket pods are empty. The visitors, who have no ties to the CIA, are bringing boots and uniforms for the contras. Their aircraft crashes...
...Alabama National Guard's elite Special Forces unit at nearby Decatur. The CIA had used the Alabama Air National Guard surreptitiously in the early 1960s to train Cuban exiles as pilots for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Powell, also 36, had piloted helicopters in Viet Nam, surviving three crashes caused by enemy fire. Parker belonged to a little-known anti-Communist organization in Alabama called the Civilian Military Assistants group (CMA). Powell was a member of a Memphis offshoot known as Civilian Refugee Military Assistants...
...Forman, returning to his native Czechoslovakia for his first film there since 1968, Amadeus marks a sure step forward in dramatic and visual storytelling. Defeated by his two previous challenges-turning the Love Generation Hair into a Viet Nam elegy and compressing the epic misanthropy of E.L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime-the director has come to some sensitive compromises with narrative reality. Mozart sings the music of God, Salieri schemes and screams in tragic register, and the film keeps humming merrily along with them both...
...Defense Secretary accredit in advance all reporters and photographers who cover combat situations. They also objected to a proposal that U.S. citizenship be a requirement for battlefield correspondents representing U.S. news organizations, a rule that might have prevented ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings, a Canadian citizen, from covering the Viet Nam War between...