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...Marcos' fading grip: the stability of the Philippine archipelago and U.S. influence in the entire region. The Philippines is an important member of the Association of South East Asian Nations, a six-nation group* that has enjoyed surprising stability and prosperity in the wake of the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. Collapse of the Philippines in the face of a Communist insurgency would severely impair the security of the remaining ASEAN members and pose a threat to U.S. allies as far away as Australia...
...settled for sovereignty over both bases plus $900 million in assistance over five years. One reason that the U.S. was willing to placate Marcos was that the Soviet Union has since 1979 slowly established a major naval complex at the fomer U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam, about 750 miles west of the Philippines. The deep natural harbor at Subic Bay, 50 miles northwest of Manila on the South China Sea, is the primary support and logistics base for the U.S. Seventh Fleet's 80 ships and 550 aircraft. Four floating dry docks can accommodate surface craft...
gence officials, however, contended last week that guns retrieved from the palace bore serial numbers that identified them as part of a shipment that moved from North Viet Nam via Cuba to Nicaragua and on to Colombia...
...soil and feed the nation." In Lone Tree, Dale and Emily Burr were buried side by side in a cemetery just a mile from their farm. The day ^ before, Richard Goody's widow turned down the offer of a military funeral for her husband even though, as a Viet Nam veteran, he was entitled to one. "No more guns," Marilyn Goody said softly...
Assefaw is an avid student of U.S. Army Medical Corps practices during the Viet Nam War. "The Americans had helicopters, of course, and we don't," he says. "But we still manage to get casualties from the field to surgery in twelve hours, compared with eight hours for the Americans in Viet Nam. And of the casualties who make it to a hospital, our mortality rate is 25 per 1,000, compared with 20 per 1,000 for the Americans...