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...Very little, beyond the latitudes they inhabit and the way they pronounce three consonant sounds. Language differences are tantamount to those of a person from Atlanta and one from Boston. Racial and religious characteristics among the ethnic Vietnamese, who comprise some 85 per cent of the country's population, are virtually undifferentiated. Tribal minorities, who generally inhabit the interior highlands in both the North and South, show a wide diversity of language and culture...
...front-page editorial, Obermayer announced that the Sun will begin printing the names, ages and addresses of women whose rape complaints come to trial. "Protecting the accuser's anonymity, while fully identifying the accused, is tantamount to a pretrial presumption of guilt," he asserts. "A malicious woman could try to make the state take away a man's freedom for life without even risking public embarrassment...
...against a hostile population and terrain?which in Panama means taking on a population of 2 million and 50 miles of jungle plus 1,000 miles of semitropical hell." Adds a senior British diplomat: "A U.S. strategy of holding on to the Canal Zone by force would be tantamount to following a strategy devised in Moscow...
...rebel soldiers had been killed by week's end. But nobody could be quite sure since the government had taken the precaution of ordering all foreign journalists out of the fighting area. Stated reason: some of the previous news reports had contained "military secrets" and thus were "tantamount to espionage...
Naming Carter Man of the Year may be tantamount to calling the Titanic the boat of the year. Performance is measured on the high seas, not on how well something looks in dry dock...