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...Vietnam's Highlanders Thank you for your coverage of the plight of the Montagnards in the Central Highlands of Vietnam [July 26-Aug. 2]. I served in Vietnam as a fraternal worker of the Evangelical Church (Tin Lanh) in the 1960s and '70s, and returned three years ago on a travel-study tour. So I know Vietnam's state culture of denial and deception regarding the Highlanders. It must be very frustrating to seek to independently corroborate the claims of Vietnamese officials when access to locals is so controlled. James F. Lewis Professor of Religious Studies Bethel College St. Paul...
...North Korea was already displaying customary prickliness after South Korea gave asylum last month to 468 North Korean defectors who had fled their homeland and taken temporary refuge in Vietnam. South Korea's policy of peaceful dialogue with the North has been chilled by the controversy, which prompted Pyongyang to accuse its neighbor of "international terrorism and an unpardonable human-rights abuse." Fearing the North might do more than hurl invective, South Korean intelligence officials issued an unusual warning last week that Pyongyang could launch a terrorist strike against South Korean citizens who aid refugees. South Korea has long blamed...
Kerry's military service and heroic acts in Vietnam cannot be overlooked in our current state of war. Who is President Bush to ask American troops to go abroad and fight when he was disinclined to do so himself? Only someone who knows what war entails can determine if war is truly necessary. MATTHEW HERMAN Westport, Conn...
...wasn't going to vote for Kerry because of his reputation for flip-flopping. But if it becomes evident you have made the wrong decision, it's time to flip-flop. When Kerry's eyes were opened to what was happening in Vietnam, he opposed the war that he had volunteered to fight in. I was taken in by the lies regarding the dangers posed by Iraq. I was in favor of a pre-emptive war to get Saddam Hussein before he used weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or supplied them to terrorists. I now realize we Americans...
...wants to award a contract to the Dupuy Institute, a Washington-area think tank, by the end of the month. The institute will be asked to study "casualties from various guerrilla conflicts in the 20th century," including the Greek civil war, the Malaysian insurrection and the Indochina war (the Vietnam War isn't specifically mentioned), the contract announcement says. Charting the death and destruction of those conflicts should tell the Pentagon "if the casualties in Iraq will decline over time, increase over time or remain at a steady state." The study will provide the basis for estimating costs, the announcement...