Word: vo
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...Exactly! He'd take the bait. This is a guy with so little judgment that he was going to accept a deanship financed by Scaife at Pepperdine, a place that wouldn't show up on any law-school ranking that did not also include some vo-techs...
...Vietnamese officer saluted and put out his hand. "Captain Vo Cong Hieu, commanding 2nd Battalion," he said in passable English. Hieu was my Army of the Republic of Vietnam (arvn) counterpart, the man I would be advising. He was short, in his early 30s, with a broad face and an engaging smile. But for the uniform, I would have taken him for a genial schoolteacher...
...there is much uncertainty about China's growing assertiveness in the region, about the aging communist leadership's reluctance to step aside and about whether prosperity is eroding the socialist values on which modern Vietnam was founded. In Hanoi, where the anniversary celebrations will be more muted, Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, 74, last week talked about such concerns with a group of Time editors led by managing editor James R. Gaines. Excerpts from the interview...
...seem clear on the proper course. In recent months critics have charged that conservative party leaders are blocking the reform process, as they begin to recognize that change may cost them--and family members--their sinecures. "A lot of people have dedicated their lives to getting us here," says Vo Tong Xuan, vice rector of Can Tho University. "We have to give them our respect, but not at the expense of the whole country." For Communist Party chief Do Muoi, 78, and Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, 74, the question is how much communism they can get away with jettisoning...
...epic struggle, but this time a kind of Paradise Regained. "You have to strain to find the war now," he says. "And it's beside the point." Everywhere, the economy is booming, and, says Gibney, "everyone wants a piece of Vietnam's future." Even legendary war hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, now in his 80s, who used to talk of nothing but the war, is snapping up books about development. "Vietnam," Giap told Gibney, "will be one of the key topics of the 21st century...