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World communism was a chimera even before Kennedy sent U.S. advisers to Vietnam. The Sino-Soviet split began in 1960; later, Mao Zedong refused to let the Soviets send arms to Hanoi by rail across China. In 1978 Vietnam attacked the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the following year beat back an invasion by China. This was not the sequence of events that Dwight Eisenhower had in mind in 1954 when he propounded the domino theory, the rationale for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia. Instead, the violent feuding among the region's Marxist regimes in the 1970s and 1980s...
...board is expected to split Stempel's job in two, promoting president John Smith to CEO and installing as chairman John Smale, retired Procter & Gamble chairman and leader of the directors aligned against Stempel. But GM's problems go back to the free-spending 1980s, when the company invested billions in computer and aircraft firms rather than finding new ways to build better cars, and it will take more than a boardroom coup to turn that around. (See Cover Stories beginning on page...
Students are required to split the skull in half, an act which adds to their queasiness, says Sherleen Huang. "That's where I really felt like we were messing up his body," she says...
...goal, all eyes are on Oshawa, Ont., native Geoff Finch. The netminder was the ECAC's Rookie of the Year two seasons ago but fell from grace last season and split time with classmate Brett Haywood...
Some Democrats gleefully predict that the GOP that emerges from the fight will be badly split, opening the way for a Democratic lock on the White House...