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Like most TIME correspondents, David S. Jackson is used to being a stranger in a strange land. During six years of reporting in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, he has survived a sandstorm in Sudan, dodged camels in Saudi Arabia and sampled dog soup in Korea. But it was only after he returned to the U.S. that Jackson took up his most exotic post...
Software forging is safer than drug running. Narcotics money, often bearing residues of cocaine or heroin, can be detected by drug-sniffing dogs. Software pirates, on the other hand, often ship their profits back to Asia via U.S. Priority Mail. Besides, the penalties for getting caught are less severe, although that is changing. Law-enforcement agencies, including the fbi and the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, have made investigating this kind of crime a priority...
...related illness. While such a decision seems bizarre and unethical by today's standards,TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays it must be weighed in the context of the time. "The Russians had just exploded their atomic bomb, and you had all these countries, first China, then Korea and east Asia, going communist. People were really scared, and the army thought it needed to do these things in order to be prepared. And at that time, nobody really did know for sure what the effects of radiation were...
...Hong Kim, 45, assistant editor, Political Desk II, The Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul, Korea. He will focus on the Korean Peninsula's reunification process, the diplomatic issues surrounding improved U.S. North Korea relations; and the new international order and regional stability in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly after reunification...
Your otherwise insightful report on Vietnam's economic revival [COVER, April 24] misrepresents the extent of religious freedom there. Vietnam -- perhaps Asia's most spiritual country (it is overwhelmingly Buddhist) -- is entering the fifth decade of the communist government's campaign to eradicate all independent worship. Authorities still persecute religious leaders who dare to organize outside government-controlled churches. Roman Catholicism is decapitated by Hanoi's blocking the Vatican's appointment of bishops and imposing tight restrictions on those allowed to attend seminaries. Protestant church leaders who hold unauthorized meetings have been hit with staggering fines. In the past three...