Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend's request and attended the meeting between Pezzullo and Somoza. "The issue isn't Somoza," he told TIME last week, "but Nicaragua and the security interests of the U.S. This Sandinista uprising is a Cuban, Venezuelan, Panamanian, Costa Rican operation. It's another Viet Nam, and it's in this hemisphere...
...refugees have one important thing going for them: their predecessors, who fled Viet Nam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, have adjusted well to life in Western Europe and the U.S. Though there have been traces of resentment against them, as there have been against immigrants of the past, the Vietnamese as a group have shown themselves to be hard-working and proudly self-sufficient. According to a new study by the University of Maryland, the Vietnamese employment rate in the U.S. is higher than that of the American population as a whole, and the number of Vietnamese refugees...
Hong Kong, with nearly 5 million people crammed into 404 sq. mi., has long been one of the world's most crowded spots. Today the British crown colony is trying to fight off a veritable invasion of refugees. In addition to the "boat people" arriving by sea from Viet Nam, thousands of Chinese are crossing the colony's 17-mile-long border with the People's Republic. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, after accompanying one of the colony's border patrols that seek to apprehend and turn back these illegal immigrants, last week filed this report...
Still, Aron feels disheartened by the U.S. "I am exasperated that you have a President who is not competent and who is paralyzed by Congress. The U.S. has still not managed to get over Viet Nam. You will come out of it in the long run, but the present is not very encouraging...
Peter Wyden is one of those veteran journalists who scoff at the notion that historians can gain insights into past events by poking around in faded documents. To be sure, Wyden fought for release of every official paper that might illuminate America's most humiliating pre-Viet Nam military fiasco: the 1961 invasion at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. But he also spent several years assaulting the still sensitive memories of the CIA's chastened plotters; interviewing the bitter Cuban exiles who had watched their comrades die on the beach; quizzing Fidel Castro and dozens...