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...Viet Tan identified its arrested members as Nguyen Quoc Quan, 54, of California and Leon Truong, 54, of Hawaii, both U.S. citizens born in Vietnam. French-Vietnamese writer and activist Nguyen Thi Thanh Van, 51, and ethnic-Vietnamese Thai national Khunmi Somsak, 58, were also arrested. The activists' respective embassies said they are now trying to find out what law they are accused of breaking...
...taking steps to remedy some of the military's worst problems. On Monday, he visited troops in Swat to raise morale and is taking concrete steps to get them more training and equipment. Even as U.S. military commanders return again and again to well-thumbed counterinsurgency textbooks dating to Vietnam to help with current engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan too has to learn the art of counterinsurgency. "It's going to be a long haul, and we don't have time for a long haul," says the Western military official. Meanwhile, Pakistan's militants aren't waiting...
...four of those detained are members of Viet Tan (Vietnam Reform), an organization of overseas Vietnamese working for political change in the motherland. According to the group, the banned materials the activists were distributing included a booklet called "From Dictatorship to Democracy," a summary of peaceful democratic movements from Eastern Europe to Indonesia and the Philippines. "This was simply a peaceful expression of these people's beliefs," says Duy Hoang, the group's Washington, D.C.-based spokesman...
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...speaks to a generalized anxiety among Americans as they face a growing agenda of problems and very little progress in overcoming them.” The public disillusionment is part of a historic trajectory that began in the 1970s, with high-profile political assassinations and the Vietnam War, Kennedy School professors said. Barbara Kellerman, a former director at the Center, said leaders face a difficult audience, citing Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation from the University presidency last year. “When Summers made his last misstep, people just rose up against him. The days of leaders being immune...