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VIETNAM: THE AMERICAN AGONY IAN SCLANDERS THE WAR IN VIETNAM is one that the ordinary American doesn’t like and didn’t expect. He can’t understand how he got into it — Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all assured him he wouldn’t. He wishes that the United States could manage to get out of it without capitulating completely to the Communists or losing face. That was the impression 1 was left with by what I saw and heard recently in New York and Washington, which, because one is the biggest city and the intellectual centre, and the other is the capital, traditionally...

March 02 2021 Sen. Bob Packwood says Republicans here once bucked the national party's conservative tilt. Now they've embraced it. There's a lot of talk in Washington, D.C., these days about the "civil war" within the Republican Party. The nation's actual party Civil War divided the country between northern liberal Republicans and southern conservative Democrats and profoundly impacted Oregon's political landscape. As more northerners than southerners emigrated here, Oregon tilted Republican. And liberal. In 1950, for example, the Portland City Council — most of its members being Rep...

In those two decades, voters have elected Republicans statewide only twice. One was Gordon Smith, who won a second term in the U.S. Senate in 2002 but lost six years later. He became president of the National Association of Broadcasters. He maintains a home in Pendleton, but has said he will not seek public office again. The other was Dennis Richardson, a former state representative who lost to Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber in 2014, but was elected secretary of state two years later. Richardson died of cancer in 2019. One of Richardson's early endorsers for governor in 2013 was Atiyeh, ...

March 02 2021 Sen. Bob Packwood says Republicans here once bucked the national party's conservative tilt. Now they've embraced it. There's a lot of talk in Washington, D.C., these days about the "civil war" within the Republican Party. The nation's actual party Civil War divided the country between northern liberal Republicans and southern conservative Democrats and profoundly impacted Oregon's political landscape. As more northerners than southerners emigrated here, Oregon tilted Republican. And liberal. In 1950, for example, the Portland City Council — most of its members being Rep...

COVID-19 'vaccine passports' could be abused in Manitoba, legal experts warn Legal experts warn Manitoba must ensure COVID-19 immunization cards won't be used to discriminate against people in the workplace, at gathering places or anywhere else within the province when the wallet-sized documents are made available this spring. Social Sharing