Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lamaze reading demonstrates, the material for the class is pulled from a variety of genre. The syllabus ranges from movies such as "The Manchurian Candidate" to the literature of Simone de Bouvoire. It even includes Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder...
McCain has pressed for normalization even though some veterans' lobbies have vilified him as "the Manchurian Candidate." The former POW voices an argument that is not widely understood in the U.S.: Vietnam today is valuable as a strategic counterbalance to China. Hanoi has just joined as a fully paid-up member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a bloc of such countries as Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines that banded together in 1967 under the threat of Vietnam's conflagration and China-aided communist insurgencies. These neighbors, edgy of late about China's new military strength, see Vietnam...
...referred to as maruta, or "logs," they were initially treated well since the experiments required healthy subjects. Eventually, however, some of the prisoners were infected with contagious diseases -- typhoid, tetanus, anthrax, syphilis -- or poisoned with mustard gas; others, stripped and tied to poles, were exposed to the -20 degreesC Manchurian winter to develop frostbite and subsequently gangrene. Some were even dissected while still alive, according to former unit members. At least 3,000 prisoners perished...