... Above all, retired Lieutenant Colonel John Sloan (ph) aspired to a career in service, his brother said. It was why the former munitions officer and Vietnam veteran joined the U.S. Air Force, and stayed for more than two decades. It was also why John, when he retired from the ...
... II, Army Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair died when an errant Allied bomb struck his position as the Allies struggled to break out from Normandy. In Vietnam, helicopter gunships killed U.S. troops on Hamburger Hill. Today, the basic challenge remains the same: distinguishing between friend and foe. Better training and ...
... his campaign funding later in this program. HARI SREENIVASAN: In the day's other news, President Obama made a show of support for dissidents in Vietnam after formally ending a U.S. arms embargo. It came on his second day in Hanoi. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There are still areas of ...
... torture, accepting torture by Americans were John McCain, Colin Powell, General Joe Hoar, the Marine general, Pete Peterson, a prisoner of war and ambassador to Vietnam. They understood that what separates us from the other side, from our enemies, is who we are and what we stand for and what ...
... miles (55 kilometers) from the Scarborough Shoal. There were no reports of any untoward incident, Philippine coast guard Commodore Jay Tarriela said, citing information from U.S. officials and a Philippine surveillance flight. The U.S. Navy has staged what it calls freedom-of-navigation voyages and overflights in the ...
... S. goods are too high, or they are manipulating their currency values, or they are dumping, or they are using clandestine internal tax systems and regulations to disadvantage U.S. exports," Jones said, "he could document these practices and use U.S. trade laws to justify administrative trade restrictions to ...
“That is unprecedented, it is bad law and it is extremely bad, short-sighted policy, because it only makes us more dependent on Chinese-owned solar companies," Brightbill said. The U.S. industry contends that China has essentially moved operations to four Southeast Asian countries — Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and ...
... Explain what you meant by that. Garrett Graff: Watergate, in many ways, is the turning point, the central hinge of the 20th century in the U.S. government. You have this moment where you have this new generation of leaders ushered into Washington. This is a generation that reshapes the ...
HANOI (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' trip from Singapore to Vietnam was delayed several hours Tuesday by an investigation into a possible case of the so-called Havana Syndrome in Hanoi, administration officials said. The investigation was in its early stages and officials deemed it safe for Harris ...
... will go to during a lead-up to a presidential campaign to try to smear somebody.” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday, “If the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about the role ...
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