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...people in the administration who were most upset thought the paper's entire staff were members of Viet Cong," he says...
...KOSOVO AS VIETNAM Yes, but whose Vietnam? The Vietnamese people in this analogy are actually the overwhelmingly Albanian population of Kosovo, and the analogue to the Viet Cong is the Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo is the Serbs' Vietnam, not ours. If NATO really does eventually destroy Milosevic's army from the air, as General Wesley Clark has threatened (although he hasn't explained how this can be done without inflicting extensive civilian casualties), then the K.L.A. will soon be riding into Pristina as if into Saigon. Then the remaining Serbs living in Kosovo will probably flee. Milosevic knows this...
California shopkeeper Truong Van Tran's display of a poster of Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh may be insensitive [AMERICAN SCENE, March 8], but he is perfectly within his rights to do so. Those Asian Americans who harassed and attacked Tran should remember just how generous their American neighbors must have been in accepting and tolerating them and the customs they brought from their Asian homeland. An individual's freedom of peaceful expression, even when used to promote unpopular thoughts, must be protected. FRANK S.C. CHANG Los Angeles...
...which a student of Buddha's sends a monkey angel from heaven to fight evil on earth). Rather, the demonstrators started milling around Tran's store in January after he defiantly displayed a flag of the communist government of Vietnam and a poster of the regime's founder, Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh. That explains the effigies of Ho displayed above the shop; the gigantic flag of defunct South Vietnam hiding the storefront (and the offending poster); and the sign that reads, HO CHI MINH IS A SECOND HITLER...
...tomorrow's American race for survival. Americans are financing the military buildup in China every time we buy an item made there. Several hundred made-in-China coffeemakers could equal one AK-47. We must never underestimate the Chinese just because their military equipment may be crude. The Viet Cong's weapons were crude, and look at what happened in Vietnam. JAMES A. CARROLL Green Creek...