Word: nam
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...Viet Nam vet who takes issue with the fad of Rambomania. It glorifies all I have been trying to forget for the past 15 years. The destruction of an ancient culture and its people has been a haunting memory for me, and I see no need to depict it in a motion picture. Chip Troiano East Hardwick, Vt. Good Morning Today...
Shultz's trip coincided with a series of diplomatic initiatives by Viet Nam. Shortly before the House vote on aid to Kampuchean resistance fighters, Hanoi promised to return the remains of 26 U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action in Viet Nam. In addition, Viet Nam said it would assist the U.S. in accounting for an estimated 2,464 other missing Americans...
...centered on a single word: divestiture. That technical term, meaning the forced sale of stock or other assets, ordinarily arouses emotions only among antitrust lawyers. But as applied to U.S. relations with South Africa, it has set off one of the most passionate and confused debates since the Viet Nam War. The issues: Should American companies be pressured to sell or close their operations in the land of apartheid? And should U.S. universities, pension funds, local governments and other groups dump their stock in companies that refuse...
...taken to another major dike in Nam Sach on the Kinh Thay River that was completely severed a few days before. Repair work is dangerous because of unexploded bombs. People in the province are preparing for the worst. I'm told everyone has a boat, that the top floors and roofs of homes have been reinforced and that research is being done on crops that grow underwater.A sulfur butterfly is resting on the lip of a bomb crater. Little things...
...driven south to the village of Nam Dinh, which had 50 bombs dropped on it on June 18, a raid that destroyed about 60% of the hamlet. People are hard at work rebuilding their homes, but [her guide and interpreter] Quoc says that the area is bombed almost daily. The Cuban ambassador in Hanoi told me the other day that a dozen or more Cubans, accustomed to working in the fields with the Vietnamese, collapsed after three hours of packing the earth into a dike. Maybe they should have drunk some chrysanthemum-root...