Word: vietnamize
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...hook up Taiwan men with Vietnamese women desperate to secure a better life, even if it means leaving their native land forever. Brokered marriages across borders are not unusual in Asia. The wives of many Japanese farmers, for example, are mail-order brides from the Philippines. But the Taiwan-Vietnam connection has proved particularly robust, yielding some 80,000 such couplings over the past decade. Chang followed the men to Ho Chi Minh City, where they're shown an array of young women preselected by marriage agencies. If a man chooses one of the girls and she accepts...
Started in 1948, World has teetered on the edge of financial ruin several times. It made its name flying refugees during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. A World aircraft was the last commercial airplane to leave Da Nang in 1975--overloaded with so many Vietnamese that eight turned up in the wheel wells. After an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a regularly scheduled carrier in the 1980s, World focused on military flying in the 1990s...
...five of its members went on to win no less than six Pulitzer Prizes over the course of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. All six were won in non-fiction fields, covering issues ranging from the civil rights movement to Florida housing projects to the early years of the Vietnam...
According to David L. Halberstam ’55, who shared the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with Malcolm W. Browne of the Associated Press for coverage of the early years of the Vietnam War and the fall of the Diem government, journalism experienced a shift in the 1950s and 1960s...
Halberstam, who was well known for his defiance of the military’s sanguine reports on the intervention in Vietnam in the 1960s, says that the role of the journalist was beginning to require a more investigative intellect in the post-war period, as the U.S. grew to assume a more prominent role in international affairs...