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...terms being used by U.S. experts as they grope for some way to define and explain the momentous events that have suddenly engulfed the international arena. What is clear is that the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan has heightened world tensions to their most serious level since the Viet Nam War, and perhaps even before...
...Birmingham, Don Reed and three aides got six phone calls in two weeks about Viet Nam War veterans who threatened to kill themselves. Each time Reed and his team raced to answer the cries for help. One vet waved a knife and swore that he would slice up his dog and then himself. "Cut up the damn dog," said Reed with a calm that he did not feel. "I don't care." Suddenly, when the vet was distracted, Reed kicked him in the shins and disarmed him. Reed & Co. saved five of the vets, but they were too late...
Carter, by contrast, refined his world view in the late '60s and early '70s, when geopolitics was in some disrepute, largely because charts of Southeast Asia and slogans about the free world had helped bring the U.S. to grief in the Viet Nam War. Carter came to the presidency thinking not about the power of armies and political systems, but about the power of moral principles. The strength of the U.S., he said in his Inaugural Address, was "based not merely on the size of an arsenal but on the nobility of ideas." He declared war on "poverty...
...Pintos made from 1971 through 1976 are unusually prone to catching fire when hit from the rear. But in the Indiana trial, the company is facing criminal charges of reckless homicide, the first such action ever brought against an automaker. The makers of Agent Orange, a herbicide used in Viet Nam, are being sued by ex-servicemen who say the chemical caused a variety of ailments. Asbestos producers face enormous claims for diseases caused by their product's dust...
...join the little bands that first took up guerrilla training. Since then, traveling clandestinely, fighting under a series of aliases, he had witnessed the spreading of guerrilla warfare through the Third World from his earliest political and military in- doctrination under Soviet tutelage to later field experience in the Viet Nam of General Vo Nguyen Giap...