Word: nam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...album John Wesley Harding was climbing the charts. The Beatles returned from India to release their imaginative "White Album." In The Graduate, the year's top-grossing film, Dustin Hoffman embodied the anxiety of a generation. The Tet offensive shattered America's illusions about military victory in Viet Nam. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy shattered the nation's illusions, period. Lyndon Johnson dropped out. Richard Nixon bounced back. The Chicago police and their antiwar adversaries turned the Democratic National Convention into a riot...
Eager to curb Viet Nam's expansive military, China promptly invited First Deputy Foreign Minister Dinh Nho Liem to Beijing last week for the highest- level discussions between the two nations in ten years. Liem presumably asked for assurances that China would reduce aid to the rebels as part of a political settlement...
Last week ASEAN foreign ministers met to lay the groundwork for another "informal meeting" in Jakarta that will bring together the Kampuchean government, some if not all of the rebel factions, China, Viet Nam and Thailand. The object is to set up a formal peace parley aimed at devising a government power-sharing formula, nailing down a Vietnamese withdrawal timetable and establishing international monitoring of the peace...
...began emerging last summer between China and the Soviet Union, which have been bankrolling the opposing armies in Kampuchea. "There's recognition on both sides that it's time to move their respective clients toward resolution," said a State Department analyst. A Chinese official put it more bluntly: "Viet Nam is worried about the Soviets reaching an agreement with China and being left...
...regime is winning some popular support as it gains militarily against the rebels. With a view toward future elections, the government has initiated a series of rural land reforms, and its economic liberalizations have been bringing a measure of prosperity to + this benighted land. With hopes rising that Viet Nam's soldiers will eventually be gone, perhaps peace, too, will visit tortured Kampuchea before long...