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Even the threat of assassination is not always a weapon against the Thais. Last June, when 70 terrorists invaded tiny Ban Khaw Noi and called everyone out for a propaganda session, Local Teacher Khun Thit holed up in his hut with a pistol. He pumped his only two bullets into two terrorists who came after him. Then he grabbed a submachine gun from one of his victims, rolled himself up in a mattress and began blasting away when the rest of the band tried to take him. Two hours, 400 rounds and several grenades later, when the noise finally brought...
Being a Vietnamese, my basic education has been directed under these four most important laws: "hoc an, hoc noi, hoc goi, hoc mo," which means that I am supposed to learn to eat, to learn how to say things, to learn how to wrap up the things I have to say, and to learn to open up the things that others have wrapped...
...above tradition literally. Once the grave-yards of their ancestors are destroyed, they would do anything to "revenge for the souls of the dead" or otherwise they and all their children after them will not be able to "raise their heads" (khong co the cat dau cat eo noi) which means that they will not be able to get anything anywhere in life. In fact, in the past, the destruction of another person's ancestral grave-yard was a capital crime. Now the one insult the Vietnamese find it hard to tolerate is any slighting remark to their parents...
...dissipate on opium and prostitutes in order to control them better. During the Indo-China war, thousands of men worked openly for the French, but cases of women collaborators were rare. Today women control much of South Viet Nam's wealth, and in her home a wife is called noi tuong, or "general of the interior." Matriarchal strength is compounded by the traditional Vietnamese view of the family as monolithic and united against all outsiders, but in Mme. Nhu's case, her family by marriage takes precedence over her own blood. She has fallen out with her father, mother...
...moments when he is noi haranguing Cubans in person, Fidel Castro passes the word through the columns of his mouthpiece newspaper, Revolutión. Last week, in a Page One Revolutión editorial, Castro gave the first real sign that he might heed the mounting chorus against his "war criminal" circus trials and grisly firing squads. "It is necessary," declared the editorial, "to put a quick end to the proceedings. The executions should be stopped...