Word: viets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam's phased withdrawal reflects political rather than military concerns. Under pressure from Moscow, Viet Nam has been reassessing its foreign commitments, and seems to have determined that top priority must be given to curing its sick economy. As for Kampuchea's own war-exhausted economy, it cannot be revived without large doses of foreign aid, which Viet Nam is in no position to supply and the Soviet Union is increasingly unwilling to offer...
...Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, formerly Cambodia, in late 1978, eventually driving the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot into exile along the Thai border. The new government of Heng Samrin was itself composed of former Khmer Rouge leaders who had revolted against Pol Pot. In the aftermath of the Vietnamese invasion, the world learned for the first time that in a population of more than 7 million, the Khmer Rouge had slaughtered between 1 million and 2 million of their countrymen...
...American service members who died in the Viet Nam War, eight were women. Last week, despite the fact that the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington lists all the dead without regard to race, rank or gender, the U.S. Senate voted 96 to 1 to build another monument at the same site to honor the women who served in Viet Nam. The proposed addition, a statue of a female nurse, still requires House approval...
...decorated Viet Nam veteran and former policeman who rated high marks in a previous job as a hospital security chief, McKinnon, 39, was denounced as a "pathological liar" by Sharpton. McKinnon was quickly subpoenaed to testify before the special grand jury investigating the case in Poughkeepsie. Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, declared that "if Mr. McKinnon is right, then Attorneys Mason and Maddox and the Rev. Sharpton have been consciously perpetrating a hoax...
...that all future arrivals will be detained as illegal immigrants, ineligible for resettlement unless they can prove they are victims of persecution. Only some 10% are expected to be able to do so. Sympathy is in especially short supply for the latest arrivals, most of whom come from northern Viet...