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...About 100 artists served in the Mekong Delta during the 11-year conflict, tasked with recording battles and creating images that could be used to inspire civilians in the war effort. Sixty-two died in action. Some were regular soldiers as well as artists; others performed no military duties but chose to go on reconnaissance missions and into combat to create their works. Recruits were trained in drawing, and professors from the Hanoi College of Fine Arts traveled the Ho Chi Minh Trail to set up art courses in the Mekong Delta before dispatching their students into battle with sketchbooks...
...group. Both Christian and Buddhist, the Karen have been plagued by internal strife between rival factions over the past couple of decades. A general ceasefire framework with the central government is in place but occasional flashpoints of fighting still occur. Karen villagers, who tend to live in the Irrawaddy Delta and in the border region between Burma and Thailand, have been victims of forced relocation and labor programs run by the Burmese military...
Members of campus Greek organizations, including the Delta Gamma and Kappa Kappa Gamma sororities, have also been compiling collections of study guides, according to their members...
...Catastrophic Miss I viewed with interest "Pictures That Mattered" [Dec. 29]. On May 2, 2008, an enormous cyclone named Nargis hit the delta region of southern Burma. It left over 80,000 dead, nearly 60,000 missing and 20,000 injured. The extent of its destruction is devastating - to the tune of some $4 billion. Despite this, there was not even one small picture of this sorrowful event to be found in TIME's year-end issue. Did the victims not deserve recognition? K.N. Thein, Rangoon
...international airline consultant with inside knowledge of Alitalia said the deal was inevitable despite years of waste and posturing. The companies are already linked through the SkyTeam alliance (along with Delta, Korean Air and others), and Air France and KLM have their own recent merger experience to work from as take in Alitalia. "This is the first real substantive positive step toward a viable long-term solution," said the consultant, who requested anonymity because of his company's work with the parties involved. "Everything before has been just kicking the can down the road, and political folly...