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...Americans and their friends scrambled from rooftops into helicopters and left Saigon to Vietnam's victorious communists. The pain of that and so many other Vietnam memories -- the dead children of My Lai, the shock of Tet '68, the coups and countercoups, the fraggings, the drugs, the invasion of Cambodia, the killing of American students at Kent State -- somehow only increased as the years passed. When the U.S.-led forces raced across Kuwait and Iraq last week, however, they may have defeated not just the Iraqi army but also the more virulent of the ghosts from the Vietnam era: self...
Besides focusing attention on peace movements, many of the women at the conference--held in conjunction with International Women's Day--also discussed their experiences in exile. Speakers came from several areas of conflict around the world, including South Africa, China and Cambodia...
...onetime helicopter door gunner and crew chief, is changing into a dry pair of camouflage fatigues. As his two watchdogs prowl silently, Miller, nicknamed "Nam" (his initials), recounts his tale with a small, innocent smile. It begins at a firebase in the badlands west of Kontum, near the Vietnam-Cambodia border, in the summer...
Vietnamese involvement in Cambodia cannot simply be seen as a better alternative to the Khmer Rouge. The Cambodian people themselves--whose point of view Cloud ignores--were happy to see the Khmer Rouge go, but were less enthusiastic about the Vietnamese presence; ethnic tensions between the two peoples have always been high...
...wrong to help bolster the Khmer Rouge? Of course. Was the U.S. wrong not to recognize the Vietnamese-installed Cambodian government? No. We cannot overlook the fact that a historically hostile Vietnam took over Cambodia...