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...State Department official was content to say that Vietnam "was their problem now." In seeing Vietnam only as a semi-satellite nation of the Soviet Union, U.S. diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that...
...pawn my Cuisinart. If Abe Rosenthal ever found out I was part of this, he'd have me back on the police beat in Amoravia, formerly the Shoovah...
...they had plotted to promote "chauvinism" among the Chinese and persuade them to flee. One Radio Hanoi broadcast accused Peking of exploiting the refugee issue: "In the eyes of the Chinese authorities, the lives and property of the Chinese people in Viet Nam are only a political means, a pawn and a sacrificial lamb in their dark plot...
...tavern--the one that raises its prices twice a month, on the days when the welfare checks arrive in the mail--and watching with a sort of morbid curiosity as a crew of teenagers begins harassing a crippled wino as he staggers his way into the local pawn shop to barter away his past for a pint of skull-buster. How the other half lives, and all that, and you turn back to your newspaper. But then you realize that it's not what's outside the station that is so depressing...
...unable to get angry or even upset about it. The rockets are exploding around me, and yet it is somehow still so impersonal that it is almost impossible to deal with. It's a cliche, but it's true: My life has become a pawn in some large and unfathomable chess game...