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...Springsteen contribution, almost a year ago. "He worries about the underfed and the underprivileged." Says Robert Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America: "We would not exist if it were not for Bruce Springsteen." Back in 1981, when, as Muller says, "nobody wanted to hear about the Viet Nam War," a Springsteen concert raised about $100,000 for the V.V.A. "That was the beginning of Bruce's political involvement," Muller thinks. "My hope is ten years down the road, he'll run for President...
...this useful work of reportage, Baker, who recorded the recollections of Viet Nam veterans in his 1982 oral history, Nam, gathers the gripes, boasts, rationalizations and cathartic horror stories of more than 100 police officers of both sexes. This is cassette journalism, immediacy spun from miles of tape, and because Baker does not identify the speakers or their communities, it is a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. But the words ring true, even if it is fairly selective truth...
...stories Baker has recorded bring to mind a phrase used in bitter irony by draftees in Viet Nam, who hoped to survive their tours and return to what they called "the world." The officers quoted here may return to the world after duty hours, but they sure don't work there. "My job was photographing dead people, and taking their fingerprints," one of Baker's cops says. "Holding dead hands, breaking off the fingers when they're too stiff to manage...
...tactics. Kim's regime shrugs off the suffering of its citizens and the government has proved surprisingly resilient. China, the North's ally and biggest trading partner, keeps the regime supplied with aid and trade. If geopolitics once again gets in the way of feeding the hungry, says Nam Sung Wook, a North Korea expert at Korea University, "it's average North Koreans who are going to get squeezed...
...concession to U.S. negotiators, Viet Nam agreed in principle last month to joint MIA recovery operations, scheduled to begin this week at the site of a 1972 B-52 crash near Hanoi. There is good reason for Viet Nam's newly cooperative mood. Its annual per-capita income is roughly $125, and the $2 billion a year it receives in assistance from Moscow is not likely to increase. Viet Nam is said to want the MIA problem solved as a first step toward restoring official relations with the U.S. and establishing economic ties. Washington insists that it will not consider...