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They also nurture communal outrage at the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration, their latter-day Viet Cong, for making benefits difficult to obtain. Adrian Yurong, 45, who served about a year and a half with the 25th Infantry Division near the Viet Cong stronghold of Cu Chi, has been denied benefits because his job description shows he was a radar operator. Yurong, now known simply as Nano, was pressed into service, he says, as an infantryman throughout his tour. The VA grants that he has PTSD but says he must have contracted it elsewhere. Such arguments enrage V.F.W. activist Cowan...
...unpack its bags and organize elections. In Indochina few cease- fires have lasted long enough for the guns to cool. The U.N. plan calls for the four armies to be corralled into "cantonment areas," where their weapons would be stored under "U.N. supervision." Experience with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War and with the Khmer Rouge over the past 20 years suggests that this is a pipe dream. There are reports that the Khmer Rouge is already developing jungle caches of weapons and personnel in anticipation of a possible cease-fire...
...Saigon we were supposed to do a show at the Brinks Hotel, and we were running late. When we got within five minutes of the hotel, there was some kind of commotion. They ((the Viet Cong)) had bombed it. Later a general sent me a communique found in a rubber plantation they had captured. It said, "The bombing of the Brinks Hotel missed the Bob Hope show by ten minutes due to a faulty timing device." Were we the target? Sure. My God, I have witnessed so much...
...past, raucous demonstrations have sometimes polarized the nation, shifting attention from the issues to the rowdy behavior and unpopular politics -- Stalinists for Solidarity with the Viet Cong! -- of protesters. Since support for environmental protection spans the political spectrum, polarization should not plague Earth Day unless fringe groups seize the occasion to sabotage a steel mill or stage other "ecotage" attacks on perceived corporate villains. Earth Day's organizers more likely face the opposite problem: the possibility that the hype and the numbing array of events will cause people to throw up their hands and stay home...
BETTER RED THAN UNFED. Viet Nam's aging Communist hierarchy has sent a clear signal that major Soviet-style political reforms are out of the question. This aversion to change stems both from ideology and practicality. Hanoi, long allied with Moscow and at odds with Beijing, has been offered $2.1 billion in aid from China to cover a projected shortfall in Soviet assistance. The collateral: a commitment from Hanoi to keep glasnost from breaking out near China's southern border...