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...flight of up to 2 million people from an opposing army has to be considered an extraordinary phenomenon. Why were they fleeing, and from whom? Through more than two decades of war in Indochina, some observers have maintained that most of the 20 million people below the 17th parallel were at best reluctant antiCommunists. Basically, the argument went, Northerners and Southerners were above all Vietnamese, separated by only the most artificial of boundaries. Despite some provincial animosities, they were capable of getting along pretty well if outside powers would only leave them alone...
Such explanations still left a sizable number who were clearly running to escape Communist rule, as did some 900,000 Vietnamese in 1954 after the country was partitioned at the 17th parallel. That earlier exodus was organized and dominated by Catholics and anti-Communists and was encouraged by the Saigon regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. There was a great deal of propaganda at the time, and some not so subtle rumor mongering. Father Nguyen Dinh Thi, a priest who was part of that flight but who now lives in Paris, claims that some superstitious Catholic peasants were told that...
...giving Jim and Ella his real parents' names, O'Neill clearly showed that he felt a parallel to his mother's drug addiction and its role in stunting his father's capacity to become a great actor. Blacks, in this play, are not so much a race as a symbol for what O'Neill's mother regarded as the dark, tormenting world of the stage...
...riding professionally for 15 of his 32 years. The 5-ft. 3-in., 113-lb. jock, a bubbling personality who often sings while riding to the post, is a quiet artist at the reins. Along with a "good-looking seat"-he rides in a tight crouch with his back parallel to the horse's body-Cordero has one of the most effective whip techniques in the business. By switching his whip from hand to hand in heavy traffic without missing a beat, he can often shift a horse into overdrive...
Howard A. Kahn '78, a member of the ERG, said yesterday that the subcommittee chose the five areas of inquiry after considering which issues are "most salient to the student body, parallel to the issues brought up in Dean Rosovsky's letter to the faculty...