Word: vietnamize
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...gruff “Reporting for duty!”—Kerry emphasized what has been a defining theme of the convention and his campaign thus far. Alluding repeatedly to his now-familiar personal narrative that included service on a boat in the Mekong River during the Vietnam War—and his subsequent opposition to the unjust war that it contributed to—Kerry portrayed himself as a principled war hero wary of the dangers of armed conflict...
...think of life without war - no Vietnam, cnn or Fahrenheit 9/11 - a life where the only news comes filtered through the occasional visitor or the Vatican weekly newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "When was the year the Pope was shot?" asks Sister Veronica, who was two years into monastic life when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca made his 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. "Mass was just going to start, and Mother came in and said, 'The Pope's been shot.' We didn't know any details, but you can imagine how we prayed for him and the shock...
...ASIA VIETNAM: A minority group is caught between persecution and peril...
...easy to forget sometimes that John Kerry is a lawyer by training. He seems to have gone straight from Vietnam to the Senate. It is impossible to forget that Edwards practiced law. Before he was elected to the Senate in 1998, he spent 20 years as a trial attorney, one of the most successful in the nation. His specialty was medical malpractice, particularly cases involving infants who suffered trauma during delivery. Edwards won judgments totaling more than $152 million in 63 lawsuits, according to the Center for Public Integrity...
...successful country in the world in checking the spread of HIV. But AIDS flourishes where attention lags, and attention is lagging not just in Thailand but in all of Asia, where 1 of every 4 new infections occurs. HIV infection rates have hit new highs in China, Indonesia and Vietnam. And in India 5.1 million people are now thought to be HIV-positive--making it second only to South Africa in number of cases. AIDS is not invincible, but it is relentless. -By Christine Gorman. Reported by Andrew Perrin/Bangkok