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Hmong started moving to the U.S. in large numbers 30 years ago. During the Vietnam War, the CIA enlisted them to help fight communists in Laos. But when that country fell in 1975, the U.S., out of gratitude, allowed Hmong to immigrate to America, and they settled primarily in the upper Midwest at the invitation of religious groups offering to sponsor them. Today 46,000 Hmong live in Wisconsin and 60,000 in Minnesota. St. Paul, home to 24,000 Hmong, has the highest concentration in the U.S. Over the years, they have established themselves as hardworking, middle-class business...
With 44 people infected and 32 dead from the avian flu, it wasn't a good year to spend time near ducks or chickens, particularly in Southeast Asia. Millions of fowl were culled in Thailand and Vietnam, which bore the brunt of this year's outbreak of H5N1 influenza, as fear of a widespread epidemic mounted. Public-health officials were particularly alarmed when the virus showed up in tigers, leopards and pigs, mammals that often serve as influenza bridges from animal reservoirs to humans. And in Thailand scientists identified one case of what they fear was human-to-human transmission...
Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because of the lack of security for work crews. What contractor on earth would want to undertake such risks to work in Fallujah, the most dangerous place...
...determined was far below average. He had doubts about his ability to lead men into battle, and he slid into bouts of depression and heavy drinking. His life was about to get worse. Jenkins' unit, he had learned, was scheduled to ship out soon to the live war in Vietnam, a prospect that terrified him. "I did not want to be responsible for the lives of other soldiers under me," he said during his court-martial trial last month. So Jenkins looked for a way out. He could confess his cowardice to superiors and accept the consequences or attempt somehow...
...image that summed up the moral chaos of the Vietnam War: Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan abruptly executing a captured Viet Cong. Although Adams said later that he believed Loan's claim that the man he killed had just murdered one of Loan's closest aides and his family, the picture became a turning point in American attitudes toward a brutal, perplexing...