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...contacts and exchanges with a host of strategic Indian Ocean countries and archipelago nations such as Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and the Maldives as well as engaged in naval exercises with other East Asian and Southeast Asian nations that are wary of China's growing stature, such as Japan and Vietnam. But China also maintains solid relationships with many of these countries - ties that, in most cases, bind far tighter and offer much more than what poorer India can muster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's China Panic: Seeing a 'Red Peril' on Land and Sea | 9/20/2009 | See Source »

...years after IRRIRA was passed, Cambodia refused to accept the deportees, believing that they would be a burden on an already burdened country. Following the Vietnam War, the U.S. accepted tens of thousands of refugees from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, granting them asylum and permanent residency. Laos and Vietnam still won't accept deportees from the U.S., but in 2002 Phnom Penh gave in as U.S. government pressure mounted. Roland Eng, Cambodia's former ambassador to the U.S., told American journalist Ron Gluckman last year that the U.S. threatened Cambodia: "The U.S. told us that there would be no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cambodia, a Deportee Breakdances to Success | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...imagine yourself doing at the time? What most surprises you when you look back on your trajectory?TK: I wanted to be a writer—either Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I made a pretty stupid mistake and went into the army and into Vietnam. Fortunately it didn’t turn out too badly for me. The way it turned out, it surprises me that it’s worked and that I’ve been able to write for a living. And I feel that although my experience at Harvard was mixed...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Tracy Kidder '67 | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

Palin, Sarah • dinner with is being auctioned off on eBay, where jet acquired by previous Alaska governor was claimed to have been sold by but actually wasn't • letter to President Obama basically urging him to make sure Afghanistan becomes his Vietnam is co-signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...Demanded an apology from Senator John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign for Kerry's 1971 congressional testimony accusing U.S. soldiers of atrocities in Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rep. Joe Wilson, Presidential Heckler | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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