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...friends, allies, trading partners and imitators in the region are thriving. Capitalism has boomed, and democracy has made tenuous but still significant progress. Meanwhile, America's onetime enemies are either realigning or undergoing a potentially millennial transformation, or both. In China "modernization" is a euphemism for de-communization. Viet Nam is pulling its troops out of Kampuchea and liberalizing its joint-venture laws to permit greater ownership by foreign investors. Even the hermit tyranny of North Korea has agreed to cooperate with a Seoul businessman in the development of a mountain resort just north of the Demilitarized Zone -- a breakthrough...
...combination of Pax Americana and the almighty dollar. Uncle Sam has defended his friends against Communist expansionism while providing aid and guaranteeing markets. Now Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union is behaving less like the Big Bad Bear. The Soviets may well close their naval and air facilities in Viet Nam and continue to foster peace on the Korean peninsula. Many in the area believe it is only a matter of time before the U.S. withdraws from its own bases in the Philippines and removes its ground troops from South Korea...
...campaign aimed at giving Moscow a major voice in the region. In Panama, General Fred Woerner, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, issued an uncharacteristically public complaint that Washington has no real policy toward that country. In Asia, the focus of Bush's efforts last week, China and Viet Nam are negotiating a settlement in Kampuchea with almost no input from Washington. In Western Europe, allies beguiled by Mikhail Gorbachev's promise to reduce Soviet conventional forces wonder how far to modernize their own military power, and the U.S. has been unable to give them much guidance...
...ingratiate, and The 'Burbs is unsparing in its cauterizing of provincialism. One neighbor (played by Bruce Dern with wonderfully psychotic poise and a barbed-wire halo of gray hair) responds to every real or imagined threat to his property values as if he were commanding a platoon in Nam -- with trusty telescope, walkie-talkie and a K ration of animal crackers. Another friend (Rick Ducommun) is your basic bully-wimp who goads Ray into all manner of illicit snooping. And Ray is the mild soul caught in the middle; with no special convictions, he mutates from a slightly curious homeowner...
...recent years, however, the military's lock on that market has been challenged by groups as diverse as the Red Cross, Viet Nam veterans, CARE and the Quakers. These so-called peace recruiters now turn up regularly in school classrooms and at job fairs and career days across the country. Some seek to interest students in working for such organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central...