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...closer inspection, though, this engaging sitcom quartet reveals affinities to more tortured theatrical families: O'Neill's Tyrones, Miller's Lomans, the ravaging couples in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Jeremy really has lost his soul, lost it for good and all, in the jungles of Viet Nam...
...male Vietnamese students and liked to wrestle with them on his office floor. In his office police found homosexual magazines and photos of Cooperman with provocatively dressed young Asian men. Lam says he once asked Cooperman why he did not simply stop working on behalf of Viet Nam. "I can't," Cooperman reportedly replied. "It's too late and I'm in too deep...
...around their sprawling bamboo village. By 7 a.m. an estimated 1,000 Vietnamese infantrymen, led by armored vehicles, had fought their way into Rithysen (also known as Nong Samet), about 140 miles east of Bangkok. Their aim: to destroy the camp and other centers of opposition to the Viet Nam-backed Kampuchean government of Heng Samrin, and to drive the refugees into Thailand. An estimated 55 resistance fighters and 63 civilians died in the assault, according to guerrilla sources...
Attacks like the strike against Rithysen have become an annual dry-season ritual in the six years since Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, then known as Cambodia, and installed the Heng Samrin regime in Phnom Penh. Even though the brutal former Khmer Rouge government of Pol Pot had been blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million of the country's 6 million people between 1975 and 1978, many Kampucheans fought back against the Vietnamese invasion as best they could. Some 500,000 civilians and several thousand guerrillas took refuge in camps close to the Thai border. Year after...
Accordingly, the current Vietnamese offensive, which began in mid-November, has been notable for its intensity. The campaign is aimed at the Khmer Rouge, who are supported by China, and at a smaller guerrilla group loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former head of state. But Viet Nam's primary target appears to be the non-Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front. This group, led by onetime Prime Minister Son Sann, is supported by the U.S. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. It has formed a loose coalition with the Khmer Rouge and the Sihanouk forces, aimed...