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...David McCullough have praised her work, critics say Hakim, who is neither a historian nor a scientist, can be too politically correct and sometimes inaccurate. A school in Florida took A History of US out of its classrooms in 2002 after a parent complained that the passages on the Vietnam war were too liberal. "I try very, very hard to be fair," says Hakim, "and I feel a responsibility not to present my bias." But, she says, opposing viewpoints and complex ideas belong in books for middle-schoolers. "Their minds are much more flexible than adults'," she says. Hakim...
...Long Delay United Airlines launched the U.S.'s first scheduled flight to Vietnam since 1975. The service, from San Francisco to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) grew out of a bilateral aviation pact agreed upon last year...
...more secure if, instead of spending billions in Iraq, we used the money to secure our borders? David Cohen Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S. Street Fight in Iraq 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...
...LANDED. UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 869 FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO HO CHI MINH CITY, on Friday night, the first U.S. airline to fly to Vietnam since the Communist takeover in 1975. The flight will run daily until at least Tet, the Vietnamese new year in February, for which up to 200,000 overseas Vietnamese return home...
...Street Fight in Iraq 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 total lack of security for work crews. What contractor on earth would want to undertake such risks to work in Fallujah...