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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the war in Viet Nam finally ends, what will be done to bind up the wounds and lift the impoverished economy of the whole region? Remarkably, much has already been accomplished. Leaders of four of the nations that share the Indo-Chinese peninsula-Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Muddied Mekong | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

The immediate cause for concern involves the safety of men on the job. Though the North Vietnamese have generally refrained from attacking the workers, some other Communists have been less considerate. Pathet Lao troops shot up a U.S. training camp two miles from the Nam Ngum Dam site in Laos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Muddied Mekong | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Executive Infighting. The most damaging threat to Mekong development has come from the United Nations. Eager to borrow big money from Robert McNamara's World Bank and other international banks the U.N. shook up the Mekong management two months ago in a way intended to heighten its appeal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Muddied Mekong | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

As young Ben, Beau Bridges (son of Actor Lloyd Bridges) plays the hero with the numbstruck charm of a tarnished cherub. Ben believes totally in America's favorite myth: the up-from-nothing success story. So believing, he becomes living proof of that other American truism: there's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tarnished Cherub | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

They deserve better, even from 20th century man, says Critic and Biographer Theodora Ward. Modest, scholarly, at times profoundly thoughtful, her new look traces the story of angel visitations through theology, philosophy and art from angelic beginnings in Jewish and Christian scriptures up to the present. Miss Ward's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Visions and Visitations | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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