Word: vietnams
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...socially. This idea was greatly reinforced for me while I was director of the Southeast Asian refugee program for children, ages 1 to 6, at the Indochinese Center in Portland, Oregon. Seeing firsthand how much better socially adjusted and emotionally mature these war-torn, Third World children arriving from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were than American children of the same age shocked me. I began a study of Southeast Asian child-rearing practices at the center. What struck me was the constant physical contact that began at birth and included family members sleeping together. These kids were not praised...
HANOI: Pete Peterson completed his remarkable journey from the bitterness of 6 1/2 years as a POW in North Vietnamese jails to his current post as the first U.S. ambassador to a communist Vietnam when he arrived in Hanoi on Friday. It is no surprise that Peterson says a top priority will be to account for American MIAs. For its part, Vietnam's government wants to use the occasion to push for closer economic ties to the U.S. Although President Clinton lifted a decades-old trade embargo in 1994, Hanoi is still seeking most-favored-nation trade status. But even...
...NATION, STUDENTS had already risen up on such campuses as Columbia, Berkeley, Northwestern and University of Michigan. On the afternoon of April 9, 1969, it was Harvard's turn. Filled with that '60s mixture of anger, rage and disillusionment--much of it prompted by the continued war in Vietnam--about 300 students seized University Hall, physically pushing some of the deans down stairways and out the doors. Before dawn, President Pusey unilaterally summoned the Cambridge police to force their way into the Hall and get the students out. Donned in helmets and equipped with nightsticks and tear gas, the police...
...CANDIDATE] JOHN MCCAIN ARIZONA SENATOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] Feeling out fund raisers [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] Time for a Republican Vietnam war hero [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Sergeant York [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] The Bob Kerry of the G.O.P...
DIED. GEORGE WALD, 90, politically engaged biologist whose research on how the eye transmits images to the brain earned him a 1967 Nobel Prize; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A proponent of "survival politics," he became an outspoken Vietnam War opponent, arms-race foe and human-rights advocate...