Word: vietnam
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...resident of Medford, Mass. and a native of Vietnam, was pronounced dead at Dunster House at around 8:30 a.m. She was removed from the house in a blue body bag before noon today...
Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese HistoryHue-Tam Ho Tai, who taught the large courseHistorical Study B-68, "America and Vietnam:1945-1975" this spring, says students can beshort-changed by TFs found at the last minute...
...1960s and early 1970s, it was left-wing extremists who blew up buildings to protest our involvement in the Vietnam War. They were dissatisfied with the U.S. government. Twenty years later, right-wing extremists blow up a building to protest the government's trying to disarm a religious cult in Waco, Texas. How ironic that the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War fell so close to the bombing in Oklahoma City...
...VIETNAM 20 YEARS LATER...
Your otherwise insightful report on Vietnam's economic revival [COVER, April 24] misrepresents the extent of religious freedom there. Vietnam -- perhaps Asia's most spiritual country (it is overwhelmingly Buddhist) -- is entering the fifth decade of the communist government's campaign to eradicate all independent worship. Authorities still persecute religious leaders who dare to organize outside government-controlled churches. Roman Catholicism is decapitated by Hanoi's blocking the Vatican's appointment of bishops and imposing tight restrictions on those allowed to attend seminaries. Protestant church leaders who hold unauthorized meetings have been hit with staggering fines. In the past three...