Word: vietnam
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Countries that practice torture have little problem finding suppliers. Taiwan exports shock batons to Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia. German- and South African-made stun weapons have turned up in Angola and Egypt. Mexico is becoming a production and transshipment site for American and Asian stun devices. It has also begun attacking its own people with the weapons. Last September police turned fire hoses on 400 people protesting election fraud in Campeche. Members of the Cobras security force then waded in, jabbing protesters with 3-ft.-long shock sticks. "I fell to the ground, but they carried on giving...
...foreign correspondent who broadly expanded the reach and scope of TIME's international editions; after undergoing treatment for lymphoma; in Richmond, Va. German by birth, Prager was schooled in America and got his journalistic start in Asia. He joined TIME in 1965, and was a correspondent in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Beirut and Madrid, among other locales. Following his return to New York, he eventually became managing editor of TIME International...
During the 1960s, when Spock and the first generation he had helped raise noisily protested the nuclear arms buildup and the war in Vietnam, critics blamed Spock's "permissive" book for causing all the uproar. "People who call the book permissive never use the book," Spock replied. "They never read it." He had a point. For all its emphasis on love, Spock's book equally stressed parents' obligations to set limits for their children, to teach them by example and precept "what's right and proper...
...Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a tenured professor at Princeton, of writing self-indulgent, feel-good verse, and he shows why in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into a Goya painting of a firing squad: "I stand/ before...
Your 75th-anniversary edition was a winner. On long, dark, lonely nights around Phu Cat air base in Quen Yan, South Vietnam, in 1968, my friend--along with my M-16 rifle--was my closest companion. Today if I leave the house without my friend, I feel I have forgotten something. I'm sure you know that friend is TIME. FRED KING East Northport...