Word: ethnically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Although the voting swung more on ethnic and regional loyalties than on the issues, the Buddhist showing dented the prestige of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu's main support rests on South Viet Nam's 2,000,000 Catholics, who are vastly outnumbered by the country's 15 million Buddhists and their followers. However, the outcome did support Thieu's claim that his government had conducted honest elections. The voting was largely peaceful, as 65% of the 6,600,000 eligible voters trooped to the polls. The candidates on the two top tickets, plus the members...
Like most of the walking wounded in the novels, stories and plays of Bruce Jay Friedman, Kenneth LePeters is a smudge of ethnic traditions, sexual and racial conflicts, and the internal bleeding caused by the status game - America's most dangerous contact sport...
...military-aid program. More than half has been spent on ammunition and rifles for Cambodia's ill-equipped army, which at one point was posting guard teams to stand duty without weapons. U.S. funds have also been used to equip six battalions of Khmer Krom mercenaries (ethnic Cambodians from Viet Nam), provide much-needed radio communications, buy 40 military trucks and trailers, and send about 10,000 Cambodian troops to Thailand and South Viet Nam for military training. Says Jonathan (Fred) Ladd, 49, a former Green Beret colonel who was called out of retirement to oversee arms...
...character just the right Marat/Sade touch. Yet because his buckskni leggings, his moccasins, his headband, his pigtails, and his blond fright wg make him look like an albino Apache, the spectre of Lucky-as-oppressed-Red-Man is aggressively and offensively present on stage. As an additional ethnic touch. Godot's angelic messenger is portrayed as a Mexican-American, whose appearances are accompanied by throbbing rascados on the Desi Arnez classical guitar...
...believes in little except himself. Unfortunately, that self is mainly composed of pop-culture fragments, miscellaneous emotions and loose social ties. A New York City policeman who was raised in California and saw combat with the Army in Viet Nam, Stanley is an American tumbleweed of no discernible ethnic background. He is a composite of what Author Faust apparently takes to be typical urban America-rootless, tough, guiltlessly selfish and easily moved by chance winds...