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Clinton has expanded and restructured vocational education in the state to include generous apprenticeship and technical training programs which have kept more non-college bound students in high school. And he has not quarantined vo-tech programs in urban areas but has kept them integrated into larger high schools...
...between the money and effort being spent to resolve the cases of American MIAs and the grinding poverty in most of the search zones is emotionally wrenching. Moreover, many Vietnamese families share the plight of the families of American MIAs. In an exclusive interview, Vietnam's new Prime Minister, Vo Van Kiet, described his own suffering: "There are tens of thousands of Vietnamese families whose relatives are also missing and unaccounted for. I myself am a victim. My immediate family has three members -- my wife and two sons -- missing in action. American helicopters killed 300 people in one action along...
This may be a fine institution, but it lacks courses in practical knowledge. Harvard is no vo-tech school...
...visits former battlefields and old soldiers, including Vo Nguyen Giap, the masterful North Vietnamese general. Safer is not awed by legends carved in brass: "The trouble with generals is that they live in the big picture, and Giap, I decide, is a perfect example. Utterly brainwashed by ambition." TV commentator Bill Moyers, formerly L.B.J.'s press secretary, is still "the sometimes overly pious public defender of liberal virtue." Safer also resents coziness between politics and press, the most blatant example being Vietnamese journalist Pham Xuan An. He worked two jobs: one as a reporter in Saigon for TIME, the other...
...nice to do culture and meet other Vietnamese people," says Nhan Vo '93 about HVA. "I like it the way it is. Politics always divided the Vietnamese people. When Vietnamese people get into politics, we get into trouble. We fight with other people and with each other," he says...