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...read and reread with great interest your article about the fear of Viet Nam by Cambodia and Thailand. As a South Vietnamese who suffered the inhumanity of the Communists for more than five years, I can only regret how much damage the American press did both to us and to the American people. Only the negative aspects of South Vietnamese efforts were emphasized. Similarly the American involvement was viewed with skepticism. This of course served our enemies well. The result was that we lost our land, and our people were put under the rule of the new Soviet tsars...
...Vietnamese people fully realize now that the system they lost (even though there was need for great improvement) is much superior to the alternative the Communists keep boasting about to the world. I regret my delayed expression of appreciation for the American sacrifices in Viet...
During the Viet Nam era, the Central Intelligence Agency collected files on 7,200 American citizens, as it and the FBI tried to link domestic dissenters with foreign plots-an activity that it was not empowered to pursue. After Watergate, and the disclosure of CIA misdeeds, Presidents Ford and Carter issued Executive orders to curb the agency's activities and protect American civil liberties. But Ronald Reagan's election has evidently emboldened the CIA to try to roll back some restrictions. Under consideration is a proposed Executive order that, if signed by the President, would give...
Realizing that the Esmeralda management meant the Cuban government, Glassman reread the documents, substituting Cuba for Esmeralda. One report discussed the Communist official's trip and the weapons he was promised. Another document spoke of Esmeralda-Cuba as a transshipment point for weapons from Ethiopia and Viet Nam, and mentioned guerrilla supply lines through Nicaragua. The grocery-store papers represented over 70% of the material that Washington used to draw up last month's White Paper documenting Soviet and Cuban arms aid to El Salvador's insurgency...
...ominous sense when seen on a map: the Korea Strait, at the southern end of the Sea of Japan, is a key link between the Siberian home ports of the Soviet Pacific fleet at Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk in the north and the naval base at Cam Ranh Bay in Viet Nam to the south. That American-built facility has fulfilled the Soviets' long-held, often frustrated desire for a warm-water naval base halfway between Vladivostok and the politically volatile, economically vital Persian Gulf-Indian Ocean region, where the superpowers are now circling each other warily...