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...Americans we pride ourselves on helping the poor and the oppressed. Nevertheless, American dollars are being used against the poor and the oppressed in El Salvador. Washington insists on sending military aid and American technicians to help the Duarte regime. Isn't this how our involvement in Viet Nam began...
...insurgency in El Salvador has I been transformed into a textbook case of indirect armed aggression by Communist powers." With that stark assertion, the Reagan Administration last week launched a carefully orchestrated campaign to demonstrate that the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and other Communist nations have been smuggling arms to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The Administration's motive is to win support for increased U.S. military aid to that strife-torn nation, and the intensity of the effort is stunning...
...incumbent Administrations in recent years. During the Viet Nam War, many on the left bewailed what they consid ered the immorality of American policy. Destructive self-crit icism continued long after Viet Nam, but this tune it came from the right and was directed against the perceived impo tence of American policy...
...nine-hour TV mini-series that brought him more millions. Three-and-a-half years ago he came close to bankruptcy when a typhoon and other problems drove the cost of Apocalypse Now from the budgeted $12 million to over $30 million; now, 18 months after its release, the Viet Nam epic is in the black. Still, Coppola can't help envying the even greater financial success of another hot moviemaker. In 1973 Coppola produced a low-budget feature by George Lucas, and the film, American Graffiti, became a surprise hit. With Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back...
Nine of the victims belonged to the Hmong tribe, and tribal leaders theorize that the deaths are a delayed reaction to what they believe was nerve gas dropped by North Vietnamese forces in retaliation for Hmong support of U.S. efforts in Viet Nam and Laos. Dr. David Paulson of the St. Paul health department does not buy that notion: "Nerve gas usually kills instantaneously and it does not discriminate between the sexes." Indeed there is no firm evidence that any of the victims had even been exposed to chemical agents in their homeland or that the North Vietnamese ever possessed...