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...learned in Vietnam that Ho Chi Minh's "hearts and minds" approach could withstand burning showers of napalm and carpet-bombing from B-52s. The poison of Islamic fundamentalism will survive any aggression we mount against it. Roots don't submit to violence. (Chop up a crabgrass root, and it breeds a dozen new offspring.) You have to patiently dig and dig, and never give up until the job's done. (See pictures of Saudi Arabia's Jihad Rehab Camp...
...fact, treacherous behavior." An unprecedented crackdown followed: a Korean MSG manufacturer was nabbed dumping toxic waste. Several foreign-owned starch factories, which can release cyanide during processing, were shut down. On October 10, inspectors caught a Vietnamese leather tanning company pumping carcinogenic chemicals into a river in Ho Chi Minh City...
...Gadd's crisscrossing of Asia started on August 19 when Vietnamese authorities deported him from Ho Chi Minh City after he served 27 months in prison for sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11. But Gadd didn't want to go home to Britain. He refused to board a connecting flight in Bangkok, where Thai immigration authorities rejected his request to remain in the country, even after he claimed to have a heart attack in the departure lounge. Gadd then hopped a flight to Hong Kong, where officials once again denied him entry, sending him instead back to Thailand...
...class surfing competition back in the very sea he had assaulted in 1969. Last week it happened. From Australia, Brazil, Tahiti, the U.S. and one or two other points came young hard bodies packing their tools in padded sarcophagi. The boards were put on a bus in Ho Chi Minh City, bound for Danang -- except that two bridges washed out midway. The mostly monosyllabic surfers (How do you like it here? ''Awesome.'' How do you feel? ''Stoked'') hung out without complaint. After all, all they ever do is eat, sleep, surf and have sex, wearing basically no more raiment...
...strangle businesses and scare away new investors, which Vietnam must avoid if it is to meet its revised 7% growth rate. Still, while the numbers look bad now, Vietnam's long-term economic outlook is good, says Tom Nguyen, head of global markets at Deutsche Bank in Ho Chi Minh City. Some think the government's ability to deal with public dissent swiftly and harshly lessens the threat that strikes will turn into violent protest or will encourage calls for political change. Vietnam remains a stable country of 85 million people with a young and educated workforce. "It is unreasonable...