Word: indochina
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...knife, hay-fever drops and a mild overdose of aspirin; he also survived several sessions of Russian roulette. Grown older, evidently in spite of himself, he left his native England as often as possible to court danger and disease, wherever and whenever they might prove most virulent: Africa, Mexico, Indochina, Cuba, Haiti, Central America. None of these places killed him; instead they furnished material for many of his more than 50 books, including novels, short story collections, travel writings, plays, essays, autobiography, biography and children's tales. So Graham Greene's death last week, at 86, prompts not only sadness...
...could be peevish with those who praised his inventiveness: "Some critics have referred to a strange violent 'seedy' region of the mind (why did I ever popularize that last adjective?) which they call Greeneland, and I have sometimes wondered whether they go round the world blinkered. 'This is Indochina,' I want to exclaim, 'this is Mexico, this is Sierra Leone carefully and accurately described.' " But on his journeys the author carried a transforming talent and temperament that rendered all the places, no matter how meticulously portrayed, not only seedy but unmistakably Greeneland...
Montgomery said the group is broadly defining the Pacific Basin to include China, India, Korea and Indochina...
...been accounted for. The government of Vietnam last month $ continued to return the remains of U.S. fightingmen who lost their lives there. Lobbyists go on pressing for the location of other MIAs (surprisingly, many Americans still believe there are U.S. soldiers being held captive somewhere in the jungles of Indochina). Much less attention has focused on another group of "lost" warriors: those combat veterans who, like Miller, disappeared into the jungle after they got home...
...fought because we were faced with an invasion from North Vietnam. It was an invasion pushed by the Chinese and the Soviets, who wanted to control Indochina. We resisted. And the U.S. troops came to Vietnam to defend freedom and preserve stability for the whole of Southeast Asia...