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America's lifting the embargo on Vietnam has people in both countries talking about reconciliation, even friendship. Let us be clear. Vietnam wants the U.S. in the region as a counterweight to China. The profit motive drives America's wish for relations with Vietnam. Anyone susceptible to the sentimental image of the U.S. and Vietnam as lion and lamb lying down together can be cured by a visit to the war museum in Saigon, where the propaganda about American atrocities is ham-handed and offensive, and where G.I. gear is sold at souvenir stands. A great deal of history stands...
...When he does move, it will be the biggest step yet in a carefully choreographed pas de deux that the U.S. and Vietnam have been cautiously enacting for the past seven months. Aside from the financial incentives, Hanoi has been keen to reestablish links with the U.S. as a counterweight to the looming influence of China in the region. American businessmen are eager to cash in on the potential market a liberated Vietnam will open up. But all the economic and geopolitical considerations are hostage to the emotionally charged matter of the missing Americans. The question for Clinton is less...
...personal battle to distinguish himself from Roy's actions. Meg Ryan as Kay Davies is the focus of the father-son struggle, and remains a simplistic character completely oblivious to what is happening around her. Her sparkling wide-eyed stare and innocent dialogue provide an effective counterweight to the heavy dynamic of the plot which revolves around...
...outfit that financed a large portion of it: the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which extended $5.5 billion in loans to finance Saddam's military procurement network in the U.S. Critics charge that the Bush Administration, which was eager to support Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, and was even more eager to assure itself access to oil at cheap prices, turned a blind eye to BNL's activities and allowed missile and nuclear technology that helped Iraq's missile and nuclear development to slip out of the country...
Johnson's purpose was to "reaf-firm clearly and explicitly our own position against discrimination in the University," she said, and the motion was timed to provide a "counterweight to the implicit endorsement of General Powell's stance by the University...