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...trickled into Vietnam with no knowledge of the country or its culture. Worse, we were oblivious to its people. Lean, sinewy figures in rubber sandals, black cotton pajamas and conic basket hats, we dismissed them as "primitive." But they were a highly sophisticated folk whose civilization dated back millenniums. Over those centuries they recurrently resisted foreign invaders, particularly their predatory Chinese neighbors. That tumultuous history ingrained in them an intensely nationalistic spirit illustrated by their willingness to give their lives for their cause...
...trickled into Vietnam with no knowledge of the country or its culture. Worse, we were oblivious to its people. Lean, sinewy figures in rubber sandals, black cotton pajamas and conic basket hats, we dismissed them as "primitive." But they were a highly sophisticated folk whose civilization dated back millenniums. Over those centuries they recurrently resisted foreign invaders, particularly their predatory Chinese neighbors. That tumultuous history ingrained in them an intensely nationalistic spirit illustrated by their willingness to give their lives for their cause...
...Europe are accusing you of despotism and have frozen half a billion dollars in desperately needed aid for your basket case of a nation. George W. Bush is mailing private letters demanding your "personal commitment" to shape up. The last thing you need is your supporters chasing your opponents into hiding and threatening to "turn their skulls into inkwells...
...original list price of $235 million--compared with $215 million for the biggest version of the 747. To recoup the $10.7 billion it will expend to birth the A380, Airbus must sell 250 of them in five years. "The company has an awful lot of eggs in that basket," says Paul Nisbet, an industry analyst at JSA Research in Newport, R.I. "The A380 will live or die on its own sales...
...month, disaster can loom. "In 1994, during the French nuclear tests in the Pacific, the Japanese ended all trips to Fiji, even though it was 1,000 miles away," says Pacific Asia Travel Association chief spokeswoman Lyn Hikida. "We advise people not to put all their eggs in one basket...