Word: indochina
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...distressing signs. Can it be we have forgotten so quickly the message of our misadventure in Vietnam? Can it be that we truly do not realize the extent and the meaning of American involvement in Iran? The idea that it will take another war like the one in Indochina, another 50,000 U.S. lives, to cure our shortsightedness, our false zealotry, should scare every American...
...Europe, France's reception of refugees has been impressively warm and well organized, largely as a result of strong public pressure. Stirred by the plight of the boat people and by their old colonial bonds to Indochina, the French have admitted 71,000 Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese. Indeed, 35,000 of the Indo-chinese in France are not even regarded as refugees, but as French nationals who are entitled to repatriation. The newcomers spend their first months in 41 resettlement centers that provide them with French language lessons, clothing, spending money and other necessities. Jobs, however, have been hard...
...undercut the imaginative scope of his novels: "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...
...Indochina's current Communist regimes seek their own middle way to deal with their Buddhist populations. In South Viet Nam, people are free to worship, but those who meditate with the 15 monks (out of 30) who remain at the Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City are reminded by the bust of Uncle Ho and numerous red banners that the religion is tolerated only as an appendage of the state. In Laos, over the past five years, one-fourth of the peasant population of 3 million have swum or rafted across the Mekong River to Thailand...
Scholars in Thailand disagree. They are sanguine about Buddhism's long-range prospects in Indochina, since they feel the Gautama's ideas are not incompatible with Communism. Observes Thai Scholar Sulak Sivaraksa: "Christianity and Communism have a lot of ideological conflicts, but this is not the case with traditional Buddhism, which is socialistic in that it champions the equality...