Word: thailand
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...efforts to save South Vietnam proved vain in the end, we should not dismiss the role the Vietnam conflict played in our ultimate victory in the Cold War. Our intervention in Vietnam held back the forces of Communism long enough so that other Southeast Asian nations, such as Thailand and Malaysia, were able to strengthen themselves and thereby never succumb to communist aggression. The Vietnam War, though a defeat, helped stem the tide of Communism in Southeast Asia and therefore contributed to our victory in the Cold War. McNamara's mistake lay not in fighting the Vietnam War but rather...
...remarkable thing now about the American involvement in Vietnam is that it was not remarkable then. It reflected a mainstream consensus that if South Vietnam fell to communism, then other dominoes like Thailand, Malaysia, even Indonesia could be next. Dulles' successors believed that they were following the lessons of World War II when they committed American troops to fight in Vietnam. If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. Now, by challenging Chinese and Soviet aggression in Vietnam, they hoped to head off World...
...want to sign a deal." Rice farmers in the Mekong Delta, traditionally Vietnam's breadbasket, face a similar problem. In 1990 the government allowed them to sell on the open market, a move that helped make Vietnam the world's third largest rice exporter, behind the U.S. and Thailand. But rice is now deemed a strategic commodity and thus can be exported only through approved state companies, which profit by paying farmers less than the world prices...
...farm, which doubles as a clinic. So far, the Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope we will permit commercial breeding,'' says a Royal Thai Forestry Department official. ``It will never be allowed.'' Still, proprietors of at least two other crocodile farms in Thailand have also purchased tigers with the intent to breed...
Meanwhile, the Sriracha Farm Zoo and Resort Co. keeps expanding. Somphong hopes to earn millions of dollars from legal trade in crocodile skins and crocodile meat, which he claims is the best to be found in Thailand. He wants his tiger population to swell to 200 within a couple of years, and has opened a petting area for tiger cubs, which at three months old cuddle like house cats. The nagging question, says Leonie Vejjajiva, a founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand, is whether a petting zoo--the feeding costs alone come...