Word: vietnamize
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...amazing gold in them thar tourists became evident, Asia greedily tore down barriers to foreign travel. Over a decade, China went from being a xenophobic recluse to a tourism junkie . Vietnam pursued a parallel course; visas for travel there, formerly very difficult to obtain, were suddenly not a problem. The Western boom in Thai cuisine and a massive promotional campaign made the Thai kingdom a hot destination; the buoyant rise of tourism in Bali in the early 1990s encouraged the building of resorts in new destinations in the Indonesian archipelago, such as in neighboring Lombok. Even creepy Burma tried...
...Kentucky Democrat—whose 24-year Congressional tenure included stances against both President Nixon’s Vietnam policy and abortion, denunciation of special-interest campaign financing and sponsorship of the Immigration Reform Act of 1986—spent three months last year as Visiting Fellow at KSG, where he led a discussion group on immigration...
...VIETNAM WAR Battlefield Protests Troops saw the quagmire before their leaders did. In 1965 a lieutenant was court-martialed for marching in a protest with a sign calling President Johnson a "fascist aggressor...
...perhaps, for the fortitude, stoicism and sense of curiosity that had once been Britain's best contribution to the world-at-large. Yet those of us in Asia owe him a particular debt for his two post-war books, A Dragon Apparent and Golden Earth, which caught Vietnam, Laos and Burma as they will never be seen again. Even more than in his novels, in his study of the Mafia or in his description of the changes in a Spanish fishing village, the Asian books (joined later by works on India and Indonesia) showed him to be the rare writer...
...excited Japanese military buff is rifling through a neat row of U.S. Army field shirts. "From the Vietnam War," he enthuses, wide-eyed over the frayed and faded garments. "All genuine." The market-stall's proprietor, however, is more guarded than giddy. Dabbing his face with a handkerchief, a flustered Mr. Udom isn't keen on strangers asking about his traffic in military surplus. He's delighted to talk prices (700 baht, which is $17, for said field shirts; 1,000 baht for a U.S. Air Force flight suit), but where he gets all the merchandise from, that's strictly...