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Forty years ago in the sweet first spring of the New Frontier, John Kennedy launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Swelled with the possibilities that lay ahead, Kennedy believed he would soon stride the world as the bold young President blooded in World War II, tempered in the political battles of 1960 and daring enough to have subverted the Soviet Union's puppet Fidel Castro...
...spurred on by a government that saw the area, populated primarily by minority hill tribes, as a safety valve for impoverished and landless lowlanders. Nestled next to the Cambodian border, the remote, rugged hills are Vietnam's version of America's Wild West. Along Highway 14 signs of the frontier are everywhere: clapboard houses hastily built, tin-roofed general stores offering basic goods and people busily clearing land, building and working the fields...
Maybe so. But this was not the first sign that all is not quiet on the western frontier. In August smaller groups of minority protesters burned two hectares of coffee plantations and clashed with police and Vietnamese settlers. As with the February uprising, the underlying issues appear to be land encroachment and increasing resentment of the Kinh majority among members of the region's 38 hill tribes. Collectively known as Montagnards by the former French colonialists, the hill people are famous for their colorful dress and dance, ruou or rice wine ceremonies?and their recruitment by U.S. special forces during...
...prospects back home in Ha Tinh province. Here in Dak Lak, he's eager to begin cultivating his leased hectare. "It's hard going, yes, but I knew it would be. I want a good life for my family," he says, pointing to his four-month-old son: a frontier baby who faces the volatile complexities of a changing Vietnam...
...Peace Prize for his "Sunshine Policy," which has opened an unprecedented rapprochement between the two states created by the Korean War. And the South Korean Kim came to Washington to seek Washington's blessing for - and involvement in - his continued efforts to reduce tensions along the last Cold War frontier. But President Bush and his advisers were plainly not going to sign their Korea policy over to a South Korean dove whose haste to pursue peace has some U.S. officials inclined to compare him to Israel's former prime minister Ehud Barak...