Newsweek - USA (2021-02-19)

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Rewind

Newsweek wrote, “As the four-day truce in Vietnam ran out last week,

the U.S. and Communist North Vietnam were still deadlocked on

the issue of the bombing of the north, which Hanoi insists must end before

peace talks can begin.” The U.S. received a report that Mao Zedong had “given

North Vietnam the green light to begin talks with the United States.” However,

multiple attempts at negotiating peace fell through as the U.S. continued

launching bombing campaigns. Eventually, the Paris Peace Accords were signed

in January 1973, ending American involvement in the war.

1977

Amid fears that “TV is turning children’s

minds to mush and their psyches toward

mayhem,” Newsweek reported

“decidedly negative” evidence for the

children under 5 who watched an average

of 23.5 hours weekly. Today, 8- to

18-year-olds spend on average 7.5 hours

in front of a screen daily.

1967

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1993

“President Bill Clinton rescinded the

Reagan-era ban on spending federal

funds for the transplantation of tissue

from aborted fetuses into humans,”

Newsweek wrote. Researchers value

these cells for their plasticity and rapid

growth. But in 2019, President Trump

banned scientists at the NIH from using

new fetal tissue for research.