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BRINGING BACK HO CHI MINH...
California shopkeeper Truong Van Tran's display of a poster of Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh may be insensitive [AMERICAN SCENE, March 8], but he is perfectly within his rights to do so. Those Asian Americans who harassed and attacked Tran should remember just how generous their American neighbors must have been in accepting and tolerating them and the customs they brought from their Asian homeland. An individual's freedom of peaceful expression, even when used to promote unpopular thoughts, must be protected. FRANK S.C. CHANG Los Angeles...
...Buddha's sends a monkey angel from heaven to fight evil on earth). Rather, the demonstrators started milling around Tran's store in January after he defiantly displayed a flag of the communist government of Vietnam and a poster of the regime's founder, Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh. That explains the effigies of Ho displayed above the shop; the gigantic flag of defunct South Vietnam hiding the storefront (and the offending poster); and the sign that reads, HO CHI MINH IS A SECOND HITLER...
...song Woodstock. "We are stardust...And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..." she sings. The lyrics seem to belong to another age, an era of idealism and Abbie Hoffman and moon landings and electric Kool-Aid acid tests and B-52s bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. But even as she sings, Mitchell is planted in the present. There's a rootedness about her; she's too grounded to be carried off by gusts of nostalgia. She keeps her own time...
...debates a few months ago over the relative influence of world leaders--Lenin over Stalin, Reagan over Kennedy, Ho Chi Minh over Che Guevara--involved a lot of learned discourses conducted as if we were sipping sherry in a faculty lounge. But the shift from Lenin to Lennon was wrenching. Indeed, the fights we had over artists and entertainers involved a lot of passionate diatribes conducted as if we were swigging tequila at all-night bull sessions in a sophomore dorm. In order to rationalize the process (somewhat), we divided the world of arts into 20 categories, ranging from writer...