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...interview with TIME, Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong [WORLD, Nov. 11] blames the U.S. for all the problems created by the Communists. Ten years after the North conquered South Viet Nam, its economy is bankrupt, and its people are deprived of human rights. South Viet Nam did need the U.S. to help in its fight against the Communists, and Viet Nam still needs the U.S. As a condition for normalizing relations, which Pham Van Dong seeks, the U.S. should insist that the Communists return human rights to the Vietnamese people. Nuong Van Trinh Martinez, Ga. Flag Waving...
...Shepard, premier playwright and matinee idol, fits the cowpoke boots just fine, but he is too snaky and controlled to play a tortured loser. Basinger remains an in-joke of Hollywood casting directors; 46 other American actresses could have made some emotional sense out of May, or at least sent her smoldering in mystery. Stanton, with his haunted, pinched face and chirruping alibis, steals the show--or, rather, is awarded it by default. And Randy Quaid, as a gentleman caller, is a perfect audience surrogate: decent, dogged, perplexed by a family squabble that admits no strangers to its terrible embrace...
DIED. Lon Nol, 72, President of Cambodia from 1972 to 1975; of heart disease; in Fullerton, Calif. A former military Chief of Staff, Defense Minister and Premier, Lon Nol ended the 1,000-year-old Khmer monarchy by overthrowing Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 while he was out of the country. Although Lon Nol's republic was propped up by American military aid, it proved unpopular, corrupt and too weak to resist the forces of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who after seizing power killed an estimated one million Cambodians (out of 7.3 million). Shortly before Lon Nol fled...
Actually the price reforms have much further to go. China at the moment has a two-tier system of state-set and market prices, sometimes on the same goods. Vice Premier Li Peng estimates that Peking still fixes prices on 70% of the products sold by state industries. There are other reminders of the heavy presence of the state. At Zhongshan University in Canton, 30% of the graduates are assigned to their first jobs by the State Labor Ministry in Peking. The remaining 70% are placed by university authorities after consultation with state industries and agencies; the graduates' wishes...
...Tsinghua University in Beijing, "the U.S. is no longer so important for China's national interest." (For those skeptical of that claim: between them, members of China's Politburo Standing Committee have made 36 trips to 77 countries since Hu took over; only one of those trips--by Premier Wen Jiabao...