Word: indochina
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...tenth time in eleven years, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal (given in memory of a LIFE photographer killed in 1954 in Indochina), awarded "for photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," went to a photographer on assignment for TIME. Peter Magubane, a black South African, has been covering the violence and tragedy in his country for more than 20 years...
...trip to the frontier province of Surin was regarded as a demonstration of U.S. support for Thailand against hostile, Soviet-backed neighbors in Indochina...
...past month, after classes at Princeton, Brooke Shields has been slipping into New York City to rehearse, and last week she made her off- Broadway debut in Marguerite Duras' 1977 play The Eden Cinema. The setting is French Indochina during the 1930s, and Shields, 20, portrays Suzanne, a fetching 16-year-old who is courted by a rich plantation owner. Director Francoise Kourilsky approached her for the part last year. Shields, who is majoring in French literature and had studied Duras' work at school, readily accepted her first professional nonmovie role. "She is a very strong actress," says Kourilsky...
Although Michael Dean, 43, never saw combat, he served two tours of duty in Indochina and "was always talking Viet Nam," said a neighbor in Lebanon, N.H. Last week Dean's obsession took a tragic turn. In an apparent murder- suicide pact with Caroline Hull, his lover and the widow of another vet, Dean killed himself, Hull and her three children. "We the veterans, widows and children of veterans are a forgotten group," said a suicide note. Coincidentally, a study just published by the New England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely...
...America's peacetime military draft, which ended in 1973, had not been declared Constitutional during the Vietnam conflict, America's involvement in the undeclared war in Indochina would have been limited. Likewise, without a constitutional partial military draft today, war may seem less inevitable. In the event of a conflict Americans of all backgrounds should be universally drafted; but the nation should not actively prepare for such a possibility...