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...world if Marcos were treated like the Shah of Iran, who was admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment but was not permitted by the Carter Administration to remain. As it turned out, Marcos was less worried about the fate of the Shah than about what happened to Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President who was assassinated during a 1963 coup. Says one senior American official: "He wanted to make sure he did not leave with a bullet...
...Dinh-Hoa Nguyen, director of the Center for Vietnamese Studies at Southern Illinois University, said Vietnamese culture has been completely replaced with Marxist-Leninist ideology by the current regime. Nguyen said that schoolbooks have been rewritten to promote communist ideology, including a fifth-grade history book that depicts "Americans as cannibalistic." It is the 500,000 Vietnamese refugees living in exile, he said, who are keeping the Vietnamese heritage alive...
While much can be taken on Nixon's authority as a former President, he offers no footnotes and only cursory citations of sources. One wonders, for instance, just how he can be certain that President Ngo Dinh Diem would have outpolled Ho Chi Minh or any other opponent in a hypothetical free election in South Viet Nam. His book is less a history than an impassioned pleading against both neo-isolationists who believe the U.S. has no stake beyond self-defense and confrontational rightists who see a Soviet hand guiding every local upheaval in the Third World. To Nixon, Viet...
...current, the depressed prices and the influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen) is a bright, ambitious immigrant who wants a chance to make a living in Port Alamo, whatever the odds. "You gotta be one of the last cowboys left in Texas," Dinh is told by Shang's lady friend Glory (Amy Madigan), who finds her loyalties stretched tight. There...
...enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...