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...Eric S. Solowey '91 Ira E. Stoll '94 Jeffrey C. Wu '92 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Sports Editors: Andrew M. Fine '91 Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editors: Yvette C. Alt '92 Michael F. Koehler '92 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos '92 Copy Editor: Yen-Dang...
...what would we be fighting for -- "Dear old Danzig or dear old Dong Dang?" Or "Shall we use some big words like 'democracy' and 'freedom' and 'justice'?" Yes, Luce replied, of course. This does not mean that it is our task "to police the whole world nor to impose democratic institutions on all mankind including the Dalai Lama and the good shepherds of Tibet." But America must primarily blame herself if "the world environment in which she lives" is "unfavorable to the growth of American life." And our only chance to make our democracy work is as part...
...budding economic energy has spread even further north. Six thousand people a day cross the Chinese border at Dong Dang. Going into China, they take mostly local foodstuffs; returning, they bring Chinese machine tools and kitchenwares carried on their backs, the heavy packages balanced at either end of a bamboo pole. The goods are modern, but silhouetted against the sky, the endless stream of peasants, workers and merchants is a scene from timeless Asia...
...revival is attributable almost entirely to Vietnam's own perestroika, or doi moi, a program of radical economic "renovation" begun in 1986. Says Le Dang Doanh, a senior government economist and a principal architect of the program: "Vietnam does not consider Marxism to be holy dogma. We need to be creative." Only a few years ago, the state accounted for close to half of national income. Now it generates only 28% of national income, Doanh notes, while private enterprise makes up 40% and the remainder is a mixture of public and private ventures. The reforms include the abolition of subsidized...
Tran Bach Dang, a political adviser to General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh, told a group of foreign reporters that if pluralism were allowed tomorrow, there would be 200 political parties the next day. Notes a senior government official: "Factionalism has been the bane of our national existence. We are still two countries, though I fought to make...