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...bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom, it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver Cutting Our Losses Leslie Gelb's viewpoint "The Dominoes That Did Not Fall" [Oct. 23] argued that, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, "the dominoes did not fall." Well, they didn't fall as far as the U.S. was concerned. But maybe someone should ask the Cambodians about what happened after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam. I think the families and friends of anyone who was killed under Pol Pot would have...
...poll. For the first time, the poll included non-college youth, and their inclusion revealed that students in a campus environment are significantly more likely to be politically engaged than their non-college peers. This is neither a Harvard phenomenon nor a fluke of the Vietnam era. College campuses as a whole serve as catalysts for political involvement and are likely to remain that way. Because students are constantly surrounded by thousands of motivated young individuals, many of whom have an active interest in politics, they are more likely to be asked or encouraged to get involved in politics...
Leslie Gelb's Viewpoint "Would DEefeat in Iraq Be So Bad?" [Oct. 23] argued that after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, "the dominoes did not fall." Well, they didn't fall as far as the U.S. was concerned. But maybe someone should ask the Cambodians about what happened after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam. I think the families and friends of anyone who was killed under Pol Pot would have a different story...
Your character in Bobby marries Lindsay Lohan to avoid being sent to Vietnam. Under what circumstances would you marry her in real life...
Luong Du fled Saigon, Vietnam, when he was 17, stopping in a Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise...