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...honoring Democrat Harriman for long and distinguished diplomatic service, asked Republican Lodge to present the award. The two have compiled more than 90 years of public service-including Harriman's stints as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Britain and Lodge's tours as envoy to South Viet Nam and West Germany. In his acceptance speech, the Crocodile showed plenty of the old snap. He called Americans "too arrogant" about smaller nations, demanded more freedom for the CIA and lamented the end of the draft as "one of the great casualties of the Viet Nam War." He also...
...want the international community to try putting pressure on Viet Nam to get out of Kampuchea. The Vietnamese have stated repeatedly that their course is "irreversible." So aren't you faced with a protracted...
...Vietnamese say their course is irreversible because they are trying to encourage their troops, whose morale is very low. But the fighting is such that it is obvious that the Vietnamese face many difficulties. The international community has condemned Viet Nam for its invasion. The Vietnamese are begging for international aid to help them in their aggression because Viet Nam itself does not have a strong economic base. While we are fighting the Vietnamese on the battlefield, if the international community could put pressure on Viet Nam-diplomatic, economic pressure by cutting off all aid-then we could force Viet...
...After Viet Nam and Watergate, 1976 turned into a vast star-spangled ceremony of self-forgiveness. Later came certain movies (Midnight Express and The Deer Hunter, for example) that were fascinating in their allegory: each portrayed American youth abroad, wholesome and handsome and lovable, yet in the grips of foreigners as evil as reptiles. This winter, Americans have been inclined to think that reality (whether in Tehran or Bogota) has confirmed the allegory. U.S. citizens are held hostage far from home; the dangerous and primitive outer world does not play by the rules, it seems. The Soviet Union rolls over...
...symptom he detects is the jump in the proportions of voters casting ballots in the primaries this year. Because of Iran and Afghanistan, says Etzioni, "we have what I call a hinge effect. All projections up to that point have to be redone. We largely put behind us the Viet Nam complex. This is the turning point in political apathy. We had a decade and a half of retreat from institutions, identity, directions and commitment. There was a tremendous yearning there, and there still...