Word: indochina
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...Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces now number about 285,000, up 65,000 in the past two years. All-weather roads have replaced the slow Ho Chi Minh Trail as a supply route, down which ammunition and replacements flow from the North. Since U.S. bombing in Indochina ended last year, the crack North Vietnamese army (NVA) 5th Division has been able to return to its traditional base area in the Parrot's Beak inside Cambodia. There it poses a constant threat to Tay Ninh...
...culmination of years of effort by Capa to get museum exposure for such doyens of the document as Lewis Hine and Andre Kertesz, together with Capa's contemporaries and friends, some prematurely dead: David Seymour Dan Weiner, Werner Bischof, and Capa's brother Robert, who died in Indochina in 1954. Their work forms one of the center's inaugural shows, Classics of Documentary Photography"; another floor is given to the equally classic results of Henri Cartier-Bresson's two visits to Russia...
...developing countries. This is a goal that by itself would make nonsense of even a sincere aid program. China has shown that the changes the United States opposes can mean leaping toward economic self-sufficiency. And the defoliation and destruction of agriculture the United States has visited on Indochina makes a mockery of its supposed commitment to feeding people, just as its reluctance to feed them in the short term does...
...folk hero. The Wisconsin graduate student who blew up a war-research building at the university in Madison and killed an unrelated occupant had a few radical intellectuals to help him out at his trial, but the liberals and students who shared his point of view about the Indochina War couldn't make the leap to understanding his action. They felt the horror of the war, but for them fighting it was not a way of life for people to join in together. For Armstrong, reacting to the war was a personal act, born out of a personal tension. Everyone...
...Indeed, the idea of trying them remains as unconsidered as a proposition that the government owes draft-dodging exiles not just amnesty but reparations, that it owes those who fought in Vietnam greater reparations, and that the students it killed and the hundreds of thousands of people throughout Indochina it killed, maimed and made homeless are beyond the reach of reparations...