Word: vietnams
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Nearly 7000 volumes of Western-language materials on Vietnam were donated yesterday to the College library by Joseph Buttinger, a member of the board of the International Rescue Committee and as authority on Vietnam...
...good time to figure out what went on in Vietnam-what we were doing there, and why we did it," Fairbank said, adding. "The collection comes right up to date, and if anyone wants to study Vietnam they'll have to use this library...
Author of several books on the history of Vietnam. Buttinger said yesterday that "one of the major reasons for the wrong-headedness of our policy in Vietnam is our ignorance of the country, and the best way to remedy this is to make research materials available...
Buttinger said he became interested in Vietnam after he visited it in 1954, when he was working with refugee intellectuals from the North. When he decided to write a history of the country, he said, he realized there was very little material on Vietnam in this country, and he began to build up his collection...
Sticks and Bones. It probably wasn't entirely without a sense of theater that the Provisional Revolutionary Government entered Ho Chi Minh city within hours of May Day, but the war in Vietnam ended with less drama than we might have expected. What of the drama the war produced in the U.S.? David Rabe's Sticks and Bones has usually been considered the best of it, with other works like Medal of Honor Rag being placed by critics "in the tradition of Sticks and Bones." The play is about the psychic warping of a blind Vietnam veteran and the havoc...