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...Soviets are doing the same thing in Lebanon that they did in Viet Nam. By supplying the Syrians and the Druze with weapons, the U.S.S.R. is fostering internal feuds and abetting the downfall of Lebanon. In the end, the Soviets will not have lost one soldier, but they will have a stranglehold on the area...
Seven years later, through Director Robert Altman's camera eye, we can see that Streamers is only incidentally about Viet Nam. Men do not need a war to touch their heart of darkness, Rabe seems to suggest; the threat of human intimacy is provocation enough. Are they men like Billy (Matthew Modine), a fresh-faced lad with a college education? Or Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an upper-class homosexual with a taste for taunt? Or Roger (David Alan Grier), a sweet-natured black who deflects each insult with a shrug? Or Carlyle (Michael Wright), the slum-bred black spoiling...
Experts at the State Department point out that beneath the rhetorical barrages the actual commitments of troops and other military units in areas of aggravation and possible confrontation (El Salvador, Lebanon) are quite small compared with those of ten or 20 years ago (Viet Nam, Cuba). One top official, watching the angry Shultz-Gromyko meeting in Madrid after the airliner was shot down, saw all the elements of a classic diplomatic explosion and instant walkout. Yet something kept the two men talking. They feared for their images. In this skirmish, Gromyko faltered. He suggested to the world that his government...
Johnson was chosen for the Army's top post over 43 generals of higher seniority. He oversaw the greatest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history and consistently urged more aggressive bombing of Viet...
DIED. Wilfred Burchett, 72, Australian journalist whose pro-Communist sympathies undercut the credibility of his many newspaper dispatches and books written behind the Iron Curtain in Europe and Asia, including wartime reports from North Korea and later North Viet Nam; of complications from a liver ailment; in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he had lived for the past year...