Word: indochina
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...military artifacts concerning every American taken, dead or alive, during the Vietnam War. The ``Red Book,'' as it was called by the Vietnamese, turned out to be the key to discovering the fate of some of the 2,211 service members the U.S. listed as missing in action in Indochina. Schweitzer worked quickly to scan the pages, storing the images on a thin magnetic tape in his machine. Back at his hotel, he telexed a U.S. intelligence officer in Bangkok that he had found a ``very beautiful bird with many beautiful feathers,'' code words signaling he had the index. Schweitzer...
Schweitzer, who collaborated with McConnell on the book, stumbled into being an intelligence operative. From his librarian's job he moved to the U.N., serving as a relief official in Indochina until 1983, when he organized a nonprofit charity to aid Vietnamese boat people. Six years later, during a trip to Hanoi to arrange a hospital visit, he asked his Vietnamese hosts on a whim if he could tour the Central Military Museum, which housed the Defense Ministry's war artifacts. The Vietnamese agreed, permitting him to browse through displays of uniforms and equipment taken from members...
...order to begin leaving behind its fatal domestic quagmire of race. The nation should decide that, in order to rescue everyone's honor -- above all, that of African Americans -- it is time to withdraw from an untenable dynamic, from the racial equivalent of what the French generals in Indochina called "bad country...
Background: Kissinger and Tho played key roles in the prosecution of the war in Indochina. Total dead between 1965 and 1975: more than 2 million...
...long embargo on trade with Vietnam offers Clinton license to take the politically sensitive step. The vote also provides the President with safe passage through a set of formidable obstacles strewn along the road to reconciliation; 2,238 of them to be exact -- the American soldiers whose fate in Indochina remains unsettled and whose families still demand that the freeze-out continue until they are given a full account of what happened to their loved ones...