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...candidates.) In May, about 350 million Indians cast votes in the parliamentary elections, leading to the peaceful transfer of power from one group of political parties to another. Those Asian nations that do not allow freely contested elections among candidates with different political views?such as Burma, Vietnam and of course China itself?are beginning to look like outliers to the dominant trend...
...candidates.) In May, about 350 million Indians cast votes in the parliamentary elections, leading to the peaceful transfer of power from one group of political parties to another. Those Asian nations that do not allow freely contested elections among candidates with different political views?such as Burma, Vietnam and of course China itself?are beginning to look like outliers to the dominant trend...
...RETIRED. MAJOR GENERAL EDWARD MECHENBIER, 62, the last Vietnam prisoner of war still flying for the U.S. military; at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, Mechenbier spent six years in captivity in the so-called Hanoi Hilton, alongside John McCain, now a U.S. Senator. He hung up his wings upon reaching the Air Force's mandatory retirement age: "When you're getting run out of town on a rail, get in front and make it look like a parade," he said at a ceremony in his honor...
...politics is rational and you have to deal with people's fear, their need for security. We have to understand that when the Republicans come at us and paint cartoon-like images of us, even if, like [former Georgia Senator] Max Cleland, we left half our body in Vietnam, they do it for one simple reason--because it's worked so much. And they will keep on doing it until it doesn't work, because they're in business to beat us. We've got to beat them...
...greater depths, to do precisely that. Their story began in 1991 when Bill Nagle, captain of a charter boat catering to scuba divers, got wind of an unexplored shipwreck 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. He quickly rounded up a dirty dozen of recreational divers, including a Vietnam veteran named John Chatterton, and sailed out for a look-see. A quick underwater peek revealed that the wreck was, unbelievably, a World War II--vintage German U-boat, nestled on the ocean floor. Nobody--not the Navy, not the historians, not even the few surviving German U-boat captains...