Word: viets
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...disciples. That was in 1979, and since then, they have worked a quiet revolution. By exposing the dusty tenets of American liberalism to some fresh ideas and empirical questioning, Peters and his followers have helped rescue it from the clutches of interest groups, entrenched bureaucratic thinking and post-Viet Nam neuroses. Now, in Tilting at Windmills, Peters offers an amiable tract designed to elucidate what he jocularly refers to as "the one true faith...
...Panama, as in Viet Nam, the Law of Unintended Consequences hangs over U.S. policy this week like a pall of smoke after the explosion of a misplaced bomb...
Hollywood loves a gimmick -- and too often loves it to death. One year there are three movies about gallant farm women battling fate and fortune; the next it's comic-book heroes saving the world or muscle-bound hulks trying to write a different ending to the war in Viet Nam. This year's flavor is a gentle fantasy about body switching: the young and old changing places with supposedly comic results. But 18 Again!, Vice Versa and Like Father, Like Son were more frantic than comic, and it remains for Big, the last out of the gate, to show...
...Rice is currently the primary concern of our daily life," said the editorial in the Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan, amid reports that 3 million of Viet Nam's 63.5 million people may be threatened with starvation because of economic mismanagement and poor harvests. Last week Hanoi took a step that may not only lighten the burden on a desperately ailing economy but also make Viet Nam less of a pariah in Southeast Asia. The government announced that by the end of the year it would withdraw 50,000 Vietnamese troops from neighboring Kampuchea as part of a total...
...announcement was welcomed by the Soviet Union, which backs Hanoi with an estimated $1 billion a year in aid but is unhappy with Viet Nam's mismanagement. Disengagement from Kampuchea could also improve Hanoi's chilly relations with China, which supports Kampuchean resistance forces, including the once dreaded Khmer Rouge, that have been fighting the Vietnamese. Eventually, the U.S. may feel more disposed to endorse Hanoi's requests for Western assistance. Not everybody will be pleased, however. Some Kampucheans fear that the Khmer Rouge, who ruled with murderous intensity in Phnom Penh until Vietnamese forces drove them...