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...cynical and defiantly out of place on the comics page of 710 newspapers, G.B. Trudeau's laid-back communards provided a daily recipe for coping with the '70s. The reclusive Trudeau scourged Viet Nam, Watergate, the hostage crisis and every political superstar from Henry Kissinger to Jerry Brown to Elizabeth Taylor regularly and acutely enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, as well as a sizable cult following. A year ago, Trudeau gave his strip a sabbatical and set to work bringing the gang from Walden Commune to Broadway. It turns out to have been...
...days after The Day After, the Public Broadcasting Service showed a film that was strikingly similar and strikingly different: Cambodia and Laos, the ninth installment of its seemingly interminable history of the Viet Nam War. Compared with the 100 million people who watched the imaginary bombing of Lawrence, Kans., only a minuscule number watched the real bombing of Cambodia. The press, which devoted large headlines to The Day After, lost Cambodia in a kind of time warp. Since TV shows get covered when they start, the Viet Nam series had been widely reviewed two months before-old news...
...about to begin, and we Latin Americans can do nothing but fear a Reagan reelection. The American public should know that the explosive situation in the Caribbean and Central America is the result of extreme poverty and deep social inequalities. A vote for Reagan will be a vote for Viet...
Tsantes, however, was not so obvious a target. Born in New York City of Greek immigrant parents, the highly decorated Viet Nam veteran was eager to be posted to Athens. Since arriving there last March, he had been chief of the naval section of the Joint U.S. Military Aid Group, Greece (JUSMAGG), which administers American military aid programs. Established after World War II, JUSMAGG acquired a reputation among Greeks for working with the CIA to influence domestic politics, though in recent years its activities had been sharply curtailed. Left-wing Athens newspapers said last week that Tsantes...
...total of five space flights, including a 1972 lunar landing, is a world record. Jokes Young: "I love to fly, but all of my parts are starting to wear out." Young's copilot will be Air Force Major Brewster Shaw Jr., 38, a veteran of Viet Nam, who will be making his first space flight...