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Mesothelioma victims deserve better than wasteful legal maneuvers
John Johnson died three months ago, his body racked with malignant mesothelioma, a disease that's almost always caused by asbestos exposure. The Marine veteran had sued dozens of companies he believed shared responsibility for his condition, but he...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Defendants, Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Black Lung Disease
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Obama: 'America’s military is the best that it’s ever been'
Top of the TicketDemocrat Obama talks of reducing growing medical backlogs at VA hospitals and proposing a hiring credit for returning veterans.... -
Joe Biden update: No 'Mission Accomplished' claim on Iraq, but no 'victory' either
Top of the TicketThe Democrat gives a preview of the president's speech next week on the U.S. troop drawdown in Iraq.... -
Foundation mends Vietnamese hearts that may have been stricken by wartime use of Agent Orange
As she so often does, Marichia Simcik Arese will host one of her unusual crafts boutiques this weekend at her Pacific Palisades home.
And two days after that she will head for Vietnam to encourage the disabled young artists who create chic water bottle...Tags: Heart Disease, Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Human Body, Charity
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'The Lonely Soldier' by Helen Benedict
The women who joined the military after 9/11 probably didn't know about the degrading marching cadences that had been chanted on various bases across America for decades:
. . . I wish all the ladies were bells in the tower.
If I was the hunchback I'd...Tags: Crimes, U.S. Army, Death, Rape, Sex Crimes
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Critic's Notebook: Musical détente at Hanoi Opera House
Culture MonsterHANOI -- This year marks the 15th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam. The country is still a tender land, but the Vietnamese have long known how to profit from their various invaders over the past...... -
Communism's grim toll
ROBERT SERVICE is a professor of Russian history at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and author of the recently released "Comrades!: A History of World Communism."WHEN President Bush declared, at Tuesday's dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, that communist regimes had been responsible during the 20th century for taking the lives of 100 million innocent people, he did not so much...Tags: Famines, Natural Resources, Mikhail S Gorbachev, History, Cuba
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The Democrats' 'Poster Boy'
Times Staff WriterMax Cleland has just finished speaking at the Veteran's Memorial in downtown Anchorage when the swarm begins, people lining up 14-deep for a chance to meet the former Democratic U.S. senator from Georgia. He looks almost regal, perched on a white pillow...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Jimmy Carter, College Basketball, Max Cleland, Entertainment
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Veteran in Conflict
Arguably the most telling piece of information in the FBI files on Sen. John F. Kerry is his speech at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Sept. 30, 1971. He was at the height of his success as a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a motley,...Tags: Police Investigations, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Richard Nixon, Coup d'Etat, Demonstration
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Barbara D'Amato Flash Fiction presented by Mystery Writers of America, with Sara Paretsky, 2 p.m. Saturday, Center Stage. Barbara D'Amato is a former president of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime International. Her new book is "Other...Tags: Jules Feiffer, Yale University, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Muse (music group), Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Florida pilot's 3-D images of Vietnam War also tell story of love, loss
Judy Glenn was a young bride with a 4-month-old baby when her husband first left to be a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War. It was 1965. There was no Skype, no email, no cellphones. But half a world from his family's Gainesville farm, Joel Glenn...
Tags: IMAX, Memorial Day, Science and Technology, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Vietnam vet tells of time spent in the "Killer Jungle"
Daily American Staff WriterFor two years, Boswell resident and retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer William Maraugha Jr., 80, patrolled Vietnam's "Killer Jungle." The Rung Sat Special Zone, with its lush, green jungle and meandering rivers, served as the main shipping channels...Tags: U.S. Navy, Weightlifting, Firearms, Wars and Interventions, Memorial Day
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