Word: vietnamization
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...different. Dai was taken to his local People's Committee, where about 200 murmuring citizens were waiting to denounce him for his crimes against society. One by one, the audience, mostly elderly, came to the microphone to speak - sometimes heatedly. "He has spread half-truths and negative information about Vietnam," one man said accusatorily in footage that was later shown on national television. Another, according to Dai's own account, declared he could no longer control his outrage at the "traitor" and rushed toward Dai shouting, "I'm so angry, I want to choke him!" Police pulled the attacker away...
...tale sounds like a recollection from the old Vietnam, back when the Communist Party ruled nearly every aspect of citizens' lives and public denunciations were used routinely to keep dissenters in line. About a dozen dissidents have been arrested or exiled in what human rights grups call Vietnam's harshest political crackdown in 20 years. Of these, at least four have endured public humiliation ceremonies. "They want to frighten us," Dai explains. "They use the people and our neighbors to try to shame us, so they don't have to use the courts." Not that the courts are off-limits...
...overpasses to see the black hearse go by. A group of teenage girls held a sign that read WE LOVE YOU. For De Leon's mother Barbara, the show of respect was in part a salve for an old wound. De Leon's father had served two tours in Vietnam. When he returned to the U.S., "they treated him like crap," she says. The motorcades and hand-painted signs that honored Mario's death were in stark contrast to how returning soldiers were treated in the last unpopular war. "America is trying to make up for that," she says...
Sand and Arth both agreed with the sentiment behind Bush’s statement, stating their wish for the reinstatment of an ROTC program at Harvard, which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences terminated in 1969 amidst the Vietnam...
...called herself a "softie," but Kate Webb's coverage of conflicts in Asia over the past 35 years, from Vietnam to the first Gulf War to Russia's withdrawal from Afghanistan, proved she was anything but tame. Starting in 1967, when she arrived in Saigon, the enterprising reporter earned acclaim for her coolheaded front-line chronicles of the carnage, plus her empathic portraits of innocent victims. In 1971 the raspy-voiced New Zealander was captured by the North Vietnamese while covering a battle in Cambodia. Before she and her five colleagues were released from their 23-day ordeal, a media...