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...academic named York Harding (Walt Rostow? Probably; it was too early for Sam Huntington.) Next to Pyle, the weary aloofness of the British journalist, Fowler, seemed almost noble. And next to what we know came of all that idealistic American sabre-rattling, Fowler's final decision to help the Viet Minh murder Pyle appears nothing less than heroic...
Lieut. General Andrew Goodpaster, 63, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy. Long regarded as one of the Army's leading strategists, Goodpaster served as NATO commander, deputy commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam, and for seven years as President Dwight Eisenhower's liaison with the Pentagon, State Department...
Trichlorophenol, the most active ingredient of the defoliant 2,4,5-T, had already proved its baleful capabilities in Viet Nam, where the defoliant was held responsible for liver cancers and birth defects. The dioxin seems certain to be worse. Within a few days of the explosion, residents of the town watched their cats and dogs stagger and die. Birds literally dropped out of the air People experienced nausea and blurred vision; many developed chloracne, their skin erupting in painful, disfiguring running sores...
...when he balances out society's assets and debits, Tom Murphy calculates that the nation is on the rise. "I keep looking back at the late summer and the early fall of 1974; you know, we were in a shambles. We had come through a helluva period. Viet Nam had been tearing the country apart, and there had been the oil crisis, the recession, Watergate. When I see how far we've come in getting our act back together, it gives me a lot of confidence about where we are going." Then Murphy looks at all those charts...
...second law of thermodynamics, the first law of survival, high fashion and low animal cunning. The plot is diabolically clever. Theodora (Teddy) Ottinger, the world's leading female pilot and bisexual author of the bestselling Beyond Motherhood, stumbles into the service of Jim Kelly, a golden-haired Viet Nam vet who fancies himself Kalki, the Hindu god whose job it is to ring down the curtain on the material universe. Teddy needs the money; she is behind in alimony payments to her ex-husband...