Word: vietnam
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...company commander in the Khmer Rouge with a pistol strapped to his hip, fighting the U.S.-backed government of Lon Nol. He survived the war although he lost his left eye, and he then fled to Vietnam to escape bitter purges by an increasingly paranoid Pol Pot. Many colleagues who fell afoul of Pol Pot were tortured to death in the infamous Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh. "I lost my first child during Pol Pot's time," Hun Sen says. "One of my in-laws was killed and many of my uncles and nephews." He returned to Cambodia...
...While there is much hype about the realism of recent war movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line, neither is so chilling or disturbing as Kubrick's Vietnam War epic Full Metal Jacket. When it came out it was touted as the greatest war movie ever made, and it seems that title still stands, recent contributions to the genre not withstanding...
Controversial meetings in the past, including those held to discuss the Vietnam war and Core reform, have drawn enough Faculty members to force the meeting to be held in alternate locations. But Fox says no such special preparations were made for the lastmeeting...
...Vietnam" midterm didn't go so well? Maybe "Vietnam-the Meaning of the War," a video/film by Nancy C. Mroczek, can clear up some questions. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own instruments and join Mroczek, who will play some of her own music after the screening. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St. 266-9268. 8 p.m. $7 students...
...most painful failure was the collapse of the Vietnam peace accord. Kissinger's outrage that Congress would not go to the aid of South Vietnam in 1975 when the North launched its final offensive is sincere and understandable. But he glosses over any differences he may have had with Ford, who displayed a more sensitive feel for the wariness of Congress and the weariness of the public. And he never confronts the basic reality that his 1973 peace accord fudged rather than resolved the issue of whether the communists accepted South Vietnam as an independent country. He is right...