Word: vietnamization
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...kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's hypnotic and--retroactively--terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin act toddling around the globe, from China to Chile, Vietnam to the Soviet Union, simultaneously propping each other up and cutting each other down (Nixon called Kissinger his "Jew boy"; Kissinger referred to Nixon as "that madman," "the meatball mind" and "our drunken friend...
...have seen the Chinese trade vacuum out one region after another - Burma, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, then Sumatra," says van Dijk. Typically, the trade follows a three- to five-year boom and bust cycle, van Dijk says, adding that 75% of Asia's 90 species of tortoise and freshwater turtles now are threatened. Worldwide about 40% of long-lived, slow to mature species are at immediate risk of extinction, according to CI. Now, conservationists fear the Chinese turtle trade has the U.S. in its sights...
...seemed to be going well or reasonably well, and the incumbents were re-elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
...arguments advanced to support continuing the Iraq war are eerily reminiscent of the domino theory used to justify extending the Vietnam War. That doomsday prophecy didn't come true, and ending the American presence in Iraq won't be as bad as war supporters claim. As William Faulkner wrote, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past...
...drive-by shooters were somehow never caught. When the Chais decided to flee Vermillion, they could not sell their house because no local bank would write a mortgage on it. So they stayed. By the time Chai was a teenager, Vietnam veterans would sidle up to her on the sidewalk to talk about hookers they had known in Southeast Asia. "I had given up trying to fit," she says. "I was merely trying to survive...