Word: vietnams
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Over the course of his forty-year career as a journalist, Donaldson has covered a range of events, from the Vietnam War to the Watergate scandal to nearly every national political convention since...
...popular tape, Tran says, is a martial-arts epic in which a student of Buddha's sends a monkey angel from heaven to fight evil on earth). Rather, the demonstrators started milling around Tran's store in January after he defiantly displayed a flag of the communist government of Vietnam and a poster of the regime's founder, Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh. That explains the effigies of Ho displayed above the shop; the gigantic flag of defunct South Vietnam hiding the storefront (and the offending poster); and the sign that reads, HO CHI MINH IS A SECOND HITLER...
...respect his freedom of speech, but he abuses that freedom," says a protest leader and immigration consultant Ky Ngo. "Exercising your First Amendment rights is one thing; causing dissension in your community is another," says Vietnam vet Larkin Kennedy, whose forearm is tattooed with the image of a Vietnamese lady he left behind. "I used to rent videos here, and I regret it deeply," says Linda Nguyen, a student at the University of California at Long Beach. She sniffs: "His videos were copies and so blurry...
...According to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox, Jr. '59, Faculty engagement on these bodies is cyclical, alternating between times of genuine passion--such as during the Vietnam War--and calmer days. Fox calls recent years an "ebb" in terms of Faculty involvement...
...Formed not long after the Vietnam War, Fox says the committee once met every week, considering up to 10 issues at a sitting. The Council now meets only twice a month and reviews but two or three issues. Lessened interest also forced a change in the nominating procedures for the body, which is elected by a secret vote of the full Faculty...