Word: vietnam
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...Nike and other companies of running virtual slave factories in China, alleging that workers are habitually overworked and underpaid. It's the kind of charge Nike has faced, and denied, repeatedly regarding its operations in Asia. Nike subcontractors employ nearly 500,000 workers in plants in Indonesia, China and Vietnam...
...writes, "I knew in some instinctive way from the first time I watched the young people walk from Kelly Miller Smith's church to the Woolworth's counter that I was watching the beginning of something historic." Halberstam went on to the New York Times and to Vietnam, where his reporting on the early stages of the war won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964. But over the years, he kept up with John Lewis, Marion Barry, Jim Lawson, James Bevel, Diane Nash and the other student leaders. In The Children he has produced a multilayered, loose-jointed, sprawling history...
Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog) Good Morning, Vietnam, for the greens...
DIED. FRED FRIENDLY, 82, broadcasting pioneer and former president of CBS News whose early documentary work set the standard for journalistic integrity; in New York. Friendly quit CBS when the network ran a repeat of I Love Lucy while NBC broadcast a live Senate hearing on Vietnam. (See EULOGY below...
...both of these cases, the U.S. let itself be taken advantage of, via either Vietnam's careful exploitation of the sensitive POW-MIA issue and domestic pressure Iraqi trade created in America before the Gulf War. In short, Reversing Relations suggests that normalizing relations requires as many different approaches as there are nations, and that the lessons learned from one situation should only be applied to others in the broadest, most cautious sense...