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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their $10,000 to get out of Vietnam--and they don't move until the boat docks at Hong Kong or Malaysia or elsewhere. They relieve themselves in their cubbyholes for the entire 600-mile trip. The man from Immigration calls them "professional refugees," conditioned by an endless war and sent packing in an atmosphere far worse. Their stares are vacant when they arrive at the docks. "What do they think when they enter the harbor?," he wonders out loud. Most of them stay in the processing center, living on rattan mats in the warehouses and washing on the dock...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...leave Viet Nam because it was a lost war; we left because it was a wrong war. To hint at anything else is a doomed attempt to hide from the shame that we should all feel in being part of such an atrocity. We should praise the Haydens for serving to remind us and keep us from further evils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Harvard sports lore is full of stories about Barnaby, or "The Master," as the squash cognoscenti often say. Like the time he rebuilt the post-war squad in one year, leading them to a championship the next. Or his dramatic finale as squash coach, when his Crimson racquetmen toppled heavily-favored Princeton, 6-3, to cop yet another national title...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Coach Jack Is Back | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

...whites for a limited time. The task for Britain, and for the delegates to the London conference, is to come up with an equally fair and manageable arrangement for Zimbabwe. It is also needed to insure that Zimbabwe will wind up with a government, not a battleground. A continuing war in Zimbabwe can only worsen turmoil in southern Africa, bring in the South Africans and the superpowers, and aggravate other festering sores in Namibia and elsewhere in Africa...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Thatcher's Plan May Cave In | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

...does not only wage war with Israel. It is also engaged in a complicated battle with the Arab states. None of these is enthusiastic about a PLO-led state. Some, like Saudi Arabia, fear its potential radicalism. Others, like Syria or Iraq, would like to control the future of the Palestinian nation. Jordan, of course, would prefer to reassert its authority over the West Bank, and Egypt over Gaza. However, for tactical reasons at least, all the Arab states agree that the Palestinians must be given the right of self-determination...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: Tuning Into the Palestinians | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

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