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...ensuing conflict, the Viet Cong were able to cast themselves as defenders against a foreign invader, a time-honored role in Vietnam since the Mongol invasions in the middle ages...
STORIES by Oleg Yermakov (Znamya, No. 3, 1989). Two short stories by a 28- year-old veteran of the Afghan conflict sketch a vivid and unromanticized picture of war that is reminiscent of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a book about American G.I.s in Viet...
Irving's inventive stamina and virtuosity scarcely disguise his indignation about the ways of the world, particularly about the manner in which U.S. foreign policy has been conducted in the past 25 years. The period includes John F. Kennedy's military intervention in Viet Nam and Ronald Reagan's resurrection of 19th century jingoism over Central America...
...have charged that abortions threaten serious health consequences for women. First of all, they argued, abortion is a dangerous surgical procedure that can lead to subsequent miscarriages, infertility or even death. More recently, they claimed to have discovered a form of delayed stress, similar to that experienced by some Viet Nam vets, that can result in severe depression years after an abortion. Last week both claims were undercut by the release of a report on the effects of abortion by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and by the conclusions of a panel of the American Psychological Association...
...past masters of the technique, the Viet Cong had a term for it: Danh va dam, dam va danh -- fighting and talking, talking and fighting. By adopting that pattern of feints and jabs, the P.L.O. in the Middle East, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador have managed to keep Washington's foreign policy off-balance and on the defensive. Only now is the Bush Administration beginning to make moves that may allow it to capture some momentum...