Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel of five Vietnam War experts--one of whom was called a "war criminal" by a heckler--last night agreed that even though its civil war is over, Vietnam is worse off now than when American officials pulled out 10 years...
...Vietnam's aged leaders, although right for wartime, are unable to run their country in peace." Douglas Pike, a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer who has written four books on the Vietnam War, told the Kennedy School of Government audience of 325. "More people have been killed by the current Communist regime than were killed during the entire Vietnam War," Pike said...
...Vietnam appears to have gone back in time Conditions there are as bad as they were in the darkest hours of the war," said George Esper, an Associated Press reporter who witnessed the Communist take-over of South Vietnam in April, 1975. He was recently allowed to tour that country...
Nothing that "it takes the average state worker in Vietnam one month to earn what an American teen-ager makes in an hour working in a fast-food restaurant." Esper told of a young girl who approached him during his recent Vietnam visit and said. "I want to go to America. I have nothing to eat. There is nothing good here...
...major construction work in Vietnam is done by hand, electricity is rationed, and the country in several billion dollars in debt and cannot feed its 60 million people, Esper said...