Editorial leadership names Elsen and Bowden
Elsen serves as editor of editorial pages while Mark Bowden is named managing editor. The announcement highlights new roles within the newsroom leadership structure and outlines responsibilities for opinion content and daily desk management.
Haunting anniversary on Gulf of Tonkin vote revisited
The piece reflects on the Aug. 7 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granting Johnson authority to wage war in Southeast Asia. It contrasts public support then with decades of debate, notes 58 000 US deaths in Vietnam and 54 000 in Korea, and recalls 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial and shifting views of veterans.
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Gulf of Tonkin
Lyndon B. Johnson
Southeast Asia
U.S
Vietnam
Saigon
United States
Indochina
Dwight Eisenhower
Normandy
Burma
Thailand
Japan
Formosa
Taiwan
Philippines
Australia
New Zealand
France
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Free World
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Eisenhower
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Johnson
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Congress
House
Senate
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
LBJ
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Korea
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Richard Nixon
Reagan
Laos
Cambodia
Washington, D.C
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Lebanon
Grenada
Panama
Kuwait
Clinton
Haiti
In Ukraine Kuchma's Era Acknowledges Reality and Risks
Political observer Borys Potiatynyk weighs Ukraine's path under President-elect Kuchma. He notes ties to Russia and Western resistance, warns of potential division or conflict, and suggests independence remains intact with possible Crimean stabilization amid broader Slavic dynamics. The piece reflects a cautious forecast from Lviv State University.
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Russia
Soviet Union
Leonid D. Kuchma
Central Europe
Black Sea
Borys Potiatynyk
Lviv State University
Lviv
The
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International Center For Community Journalism and Mass Communication
Grinnell
United States Information Agency
Hiroshima exhibit stirs debate as 50th anniversary nears
Greg Mitchell surveys the Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit plan to display the Bomb’s victims and a Ground Zero room. Critics from Air Force veterans to Sen. Kassebaum call the approach evasive, while supporters defend its objective portrayal of Hiroshima’s legacy.
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Greg Mitchell
America
Berlin
U.S
Pacific
Leyte Gulf
Philippines
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Normandy
National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Museum
Air Force
Hugh Sidey
Time Magazine
Air Force Association
Japan
Nancy Kassebaum
R-Kan
Smithsonian
Tom Crouch
Can
Truman
Leslie Groves
Mary McCarthy
Ralph Lapp
Energy Department
Hazel O'Leary
Manhattan Project
New Mexico
Baseball Strike Threat Exposes Fans and Finance Clash
A reader argues MLB owners and players are pandering to profits while fans, taxpayers, and families bear the burden. He notes a 78 million pension dispute, high ticket costs, bond-floated ballparks, and disputes over salaries, caps, and postseason pay, warning a strike harms fans and the sport.
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