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...practice, many teachers have begun turning the problems of ethnic diversity in their classrooms to educational advantage. Most elementary schools in Garden City celebrate different national holidays, including Mexican Independence Day, the Laotian New Year and Vietnam's Tet. Last year a class at New York City's P.S. 189, which is roughly one-third Haitian, performed a class project about Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the slave who freed Haiti from France. The exercise was consistent with both Haitian cultural traditions and the school's emphasis on maintaining harmony and diversity...
...year-old Arizona dress-shop owner first came to the attention of the national press in 1982, when he claimed to have taken part in a covert mission into Laos the previous year. Barnes' story: his team found two American soldiers in a Laotian prison camp but were unable to rescue them. The team radioed the CIA's headquarters, and the agency ordered them to kill the men. ABC's Nightline planned a three-part series on the story but later dropped the project, as did the Los Angeles Times, which sent two reporters to Thailand in a vain effort...
...photo, purporting to show the missing soldier in a Laotian prison camp, turned out to be that of a German national named Gunther Dittrich. The man's identity, first reported by ABC News, was confirmed by Defense Department investigators who interviewed him in a German prison, where he is serving time for illegally exporting exotic Asian birds...
...there were forced to define and politicize our "sexuality" and our "ethnicity" because of a social context that is profoundly hostile to both. It was all the more telling then that the journalist should have incorrectly identified me as Laotian. My family is from Goa (an Indian province that was once a Portuguese colony...
Panelist Vernon A. Rosario, a graduate student who is gay, said his parents--who were troubled by issues of assimilation related to their own Laotian heritage--had difficulty accepting his homosexuality...