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...moment, American special units are still spending most of their time learning about Viet Nam-style field tactics. Their sophistication about international terrorism is less than that of the SWAT units in major city police departments. Terrorism is the war of the 1980s. David E. Steele Los Angeles
...says something about the conference of Islamic Foreign Ministers in Islamabad last week that one of the more moderate voices heard there was that of Iran's Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. "When we condemn the U.S. for supporting Israel in Palestine and for intervening in Viet Nam," said Ghotbzadeh, who was clearly the star of the six-day meeting, "we should not hesitate for one minute to condemn the Soviet Union for intervening in Afghanistan." Trailed by reporters wherever he went, the tall, dark-haired Iranian Foreign Minister went well beyond rhetorical denunciation of Moscow's "adventurism" in Afghanistan...
...been just five years since the jubilant troops of North Viet Nam swept into the crushed city of Saigon and brought an ignominious end to the Republic of South Viet Nam. For Hanoi, those euphoric days of victory held hope that the long years of sacrifice would finally be repaid with peace and prosperity. A U.S.-built network of roads, ports and communications facilities remained largely intact throughout the South and a united Viet Nam, blessed with two rice-rich river deltas, abundant coal and fertile fishing grounds seemed ready to emerge from the ashes of civil...
That dream of economic strength has never materialized. Viet Nam today is a somber country where austere militarism remains a way of life. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss and Photographer Dirck Halstead, who both covered the Viet Nam War, recently spent 17 days in Viet Nam to assess what has gone wrong-and what is going right. De Voss 's report...
...twisted debris of Jeeps and armored cars lies rusting in the sun. Bunkers have collapsed. Abandoned shell casings and brittle gas masks litter the barren ground. No other town in the South suffered so severely during the war. In the spring of 1972, when it was encircled by the Viet Cong, at least 1,000 artillery and rocket rounds fell on An Loc every day. Today only a handful of buildings has been restored...