Word: vietnamization
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...Hollywood star completed adoption procedures for Pax, a 3-year-old Vietnamese boy, in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday morning after picking him up from the orphanage she and Pitt visited during a trip last November. Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt. Her new son joins 5-year-old brother Maddox, adopted from Cambodia, sister Zahara, age 2, from Ethiopia; and baby Shiloh, the couple's biological daughter who was born in Namibia last...
...Vietnam veteran, I agree with Kinsley. Bring our troops home, and stop wasting the sacred blood of soldiers and billions of dollars. Steve Jakatt Coatesville, Pennsylvania...
Number of journalists and their support staff who were killed during the Vietnam conflict from...
...There was a time when John McCain would have seemed the most natural heir to Reagan. It was Reagan who first introduced McCain to a conservative audience - ironically enough, given McCain's conspicuous no-show this year, at CPAC's 1974 conference. McCain was one of three former Vietnam POWs in attendance. With their release, Reagan said, "this country had its spirits lifted as they have never been lifted in many years." Twenty-five years later, McCain was a fiscal conservative and security hawk serving his third term in Barry Goldwater's old Senate seat when Nancy Reagan picked...
...Post-traumatic stress disorder affected 13% of veterans in the study. That number is consistent with figures from other conflicts, including Vietnam. But Seal is concerned that the numbers on PTSD and other mental disorders have been rising since the study was completed. "We just did a quick peek at more recent data and the numbers have gone up. They may surpass the numbers from Vietnam." She and her fellow authors attribute the prevalence of mental problems to the stress of guerrilla warfare, the chronic threat of roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices and multiple tours of duty...