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...small underground network inside Laos known as the Blackbirds. Supported by Lao communities living in the U.S., the Blackbirds have provided food and clothing to a few thousand descendants of a militia, mainly made up of Hmong, that once helped the U.S. fight the communists during the Vietnam...
...allies of the U.S. have been left behind in the jungles of Southeast Asia, victims of a regime that sees them as armed bandits. And so-in a summer marked by memories of veterans of the swift-boat campaigns in the Mekong Delta and protests by the Montagnards in Vietnam itself-the Vietnam War, that suppurating sore that never heals, will ooze one more trail of bile and despair...
...avian flu's deadly H5N1 strain claimed its 20th victim in Vietnam? The Vietnamese government doesn't appear particularly eager to know. Officially, the government says it is waiting for the last in a series of tests to confirm that a 14-month-old boy died Sept. 5 of H5N1 bird flu. Yet one Vietnamese health official told TIME the real cause for the delay is the desire to avoid a fresh bird-flu controversy before an Asian-European summit in Hanoi next month. "For the time being, we are just identifying it as flu type...
...have forced some people to alter their menus. Beef prices shot up by 21.7% in the second quarter, thanks to demand for cheap Polish meat in other E.U. states. Carb lovers suffered, too: rice prices rose 27.7% after Poland implemented E.U. tariffs on imports from countries such as Vietnam. Food and oil have driven overall inflation to almost double the central bank's 2.5% target, and bankers will likely hike interest rates for the fourth time in four months when they meet at the end of this month. Poland 's neighbors don't seem to be having the same problems...
...with Vietnam vets, the ability of New Yorkers to process a trauma depends largely on how close people were to the carnage. Researchers have created a matrix called the World Trade Center Exposure Scale to measure this. They've learned that exposure can mean having watched the towers collapse through a window - or on TV, over and over...