Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...implications if the war were not contained and short-lived, if it were to provoke direct Soviet intervention or retaliation on behalf of their Vietnamese client. It was a heyday for alarmists: "I would bet that it won't happen?but we are very much in danger of a third world war. It could be starting at this moment," warned New York Senator Daniel Moynihan. Administration advisers and military strategists were less worried, but no one was prepared to deny that the world's newest war contained the potential for much wider, and even uncontrollable, conflagration...
...that Viet Nam has come off much better. Hanoi's expansion into Laos and its invasion of Cambodia did much to demolish Viet Nam's widespread image in the Third World as a brave anticolonial underdog and show it up more as an Oriental 20th century Sparta intent on becoming gendarme and ruler of all it can grasp. One mystery: How do the Vietnamese maintain that martial impulse after more than 30 years of constant warfare? Part of the answer derives from who has the upper hand in the collective leadership that succeeded Ho Chi Minh. The eleven-man Politburo...
Other major revolts, in the third, sixth and tenth centuries, helped the Viets build a martial spirit, which was needed to ward off attacks from Tais in the west and Chams in the south. A dozen more wars and another ruthless Chinese occupation in the early 15th century reinforced the Viets' independent spirit and burned hostility toward the Chinese into their minds for good. Before World War II, Nationalist China gave shelter to anti-French Vietnamese political refugees, but even this consideration failed to erase the enmity. In his subsequent war against the French, Ho Chi Minh was offered...
...Amin. Neither the United Nations nor the Organization of African Unity has condemned the invasion, despite his appeals. Amin may have managed to buy a few weapons from Iraq, but his traditional arms suppliers, Libya and the Soviet Union, apparently have cut off his credit. At least a third of Amin's 21,000-man army is now composed of Nubian mercenaries from southern Sudan, a group he trusts more than his own countrymen, and morale is at an all time...
...Child, just beginning, comes at an ironic time. The premise of the International Year, of course, is not so much that the world's children are disliked or unwelcome as that too many of them are undernourished, badly housed and ill educated. The First World and the Third World have somewhat different perspectives on children...