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...President's speech brings to mind all those "light at the end of the tunnel" talks we heard about the Viet Nam War. Then, as now, people were suffering in the meantime...
...moment at least, congressional opposition is not as strong as it may appear. The majority of U.S. legislators are trying to ignore the prickly El Salvador issue. Explained Leach: "In the public mind, there's a great wish that the issue would go away. Like Viet Nam, it's something we'd like to forget. But, like any issue, some people won't let it be forgotten, some for political reasons, some for humanitarian...
...Congressmen to co-sponsor a resolution that would cut off all U.S. military aid to El Salvador on the grounds that the Reagan Administration was mistaken in claiming that there had been significant human rights progress in the country. Studds, who speaks from personal conviction, finds echoes of Viet Nam in the Salvadoran situation. Says he: "The U.S. is backing itself into a corner. There's overwhelming public opposition to the Administration's policy...
...work of popular art can tap the money machine so deftly without touching a national pulse or nerve. M*A*S*H, a Viet Nam parable that hit the airwaves three months before the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, surely did so. Like the surgeons whose no-sweat heroism it celebrated, the series began by operating on the wounded American body politic with skill and daring good humor. For half an hour each week, hawk and dove could sit together in front of the TV set and agree: war is an existential hell to which some pretty fine people had been...
...Blake return, in person or in flashback? Will everyone survive the armistice? Or will, as one waggish M*A*S*H watcher suggests, the 4077 be told that they have been literally in Korea for these eleven years, that it is now 1963 and time to re-up for Viet...