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Viet Nam's enduring militarism can also serve as a convenient alibi for the country's economic morass. Since reunification in 1975, the rate of inflation in Hanoi has gone up 100%. In Saigon, the annual inflation rate is a staggering 350%; unemployment is 20%. A combination of bad weather and bureaucratic bungling has left Viet Nam with a succession of crop failures and a 2 million-ton annual shortfall of food. Compared with 1976, last year's paper production was down by 16% and textiles...
...delves through Theo's journals and his own memories of their abutting lives, Narrator Stern etches a bleak chronicle of loneliness and lust, punctuated with quiet irony. Stern notes the perennial alibi of the spy: treachery is excusable because it is always performed in the name of humanity. The excuse is held up to the light and found "curiously selective, since few spies seem disposed to share their thefts with anybody but the Soviet Union...
...change in prosecuting attorneys postponed the trial to the afternoon session. The district attorney's office suddenly decided to switch prosecutors, because of the "alibi witness defense," Edward M. Burns, the prosecuting attorney, said Thursday after the trial. Burns said the scheduled attorney was a third-year law school student, "and they wanted to call a member of the bar." Burns, a student at the Kennedy School of Government, could not be reached yesterday for further comment...
...This is a relatively minor charge and not considered as serious as other cases," Burns said, adding that the number of "alibi witnesses" for Ezera's defense prompted the switch "to a more experienced attorney...
...Phnom-Penh. The North Vietnamese were systematically expanding their sanctuaries and merging them into a "liberated zone." If these steps were unopposed, the Communist sanctuaries would be organized into a single large base area. By April 21 the basic issue was whether Vietnamization was to be merely an alibi for an American collapse or a serious strategy designed to achieve an honorable peace...