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...knowledgeable, persuasive and, above all, convinced of the Tightness of their cause." London Correspondent Mary Cronin, who attended a huge anti-nuclear demonstration in Hyde Park, compared "the solemnity, the pervasive anger and anxiety, the grim determination to stop what they see as disaster" with U.S. protests against the Viet Nam War. For Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, the controversy on nuclear defense in West Germany was both ubiquitous and cacophonous: "It swamps the pages of newspapers and washes in huge waves over television," says Flamini...
Memorializing Viet...
...some gleeful Democrats would have it, that Reagan last week consigned himself to being "a ten-month President." But there are memories of how small and not-so-small ineptitudes can accumulate, until one day the balance unexpectedly tips against a man. Lyndon Johnson through budget deficits and Viet Nam setbacks was forgiven a host of petty exaggerations, but he ultimately was standing in the credibility gap. Some vague suspicion about Jimmy Carter's competence hardened the day he embraced his troubled friend and Budget Director, Bert Lance. Carter's presidency was never quite the same after that...
...Europe or as dogmatic as the unilateralist ban-the-bomb protests of the '50s. Said Hart: "If it grows into a unilateral thing, that would not be useful. We are talking here of responsible arms control." Nor were the seminars a replay of the rallies of the Viet Nam era. "During the 1960s we were concerned about our boys who were dying overseas," explained U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Don Kalish. "Now I'm concerned about myself. It's much closer to home." The discussions were sober and sobering, providing a detailed depiction of a nuclear holocaust. Said Howard...
...prosecutors, he handed over $2 million, his last remaining assets from a business that once reaped a $12 million profit in 90 days. His marriage broken, his friends in jail, his career ended, Steinberg still sees himself as much the same gentle youth who served as a medic in Viet Nam for eight months in 1968. Says he: "Marijuana doesn't hurt anybody. We never saw ourselves as really doing anything wrong...