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...orientations in the demand for Asian American studies. Unlike prior generations, young people believed that their common experiences as racialized and marginalized Asian immigrant groups in the United States transcended the conflict-ridden histories of their respective Asian countries of heritage. With the dehumanization of Vietnamese, Cambodians and other Southeast Asians in Western news coverage of the Vietnam War, the pressure for action among the self-designated “Asian Americans” resulted in the Third World Liberation Front—a series of strikes in solidarity with other students of color at San Francisco State University...
...have provided the willing bodies--and the cars. The vehicles used in the Saturday and Thursday bombings were apparently bought by the same men. Together with the four suicide bombers and most of the dozen or more alleged accomplices under arrest, they come from the country's volatile southeast, near the border with Iraq, known for its Kurdish separatists and Islamic extremists. Although a few Islamic militant groups have been around for years, Turkish authorities considered them a spent force. But the turmoil in Iraq has revived their ardor. Local extremists, says Mehmet Farac, who has written several books...
FOUND. Remains of CHARLES DEAN, younger brother of U.S. presidential candidate Howard Dean, 29 years after he disappeared while traveling in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War; buried in a rice paddy in central Laos. Charlie Dean, then 24, and Australian companion Neil Sharman were arrested by communist Pathet Lao guerrillas in September 1974 while traveling along the Mekong River. They were apparently executed three months later as suspected spies, although the U.S. and Australian governments maintain they were tourists. The remains have not been officially identified, but members of the Dean family say they recognize items found with...
...blame on President Lyndon B. Johnson, a figure who does not come across flatteringly in Morris’ documentary. Morris unearthed audio archives for this film that present Johnson as a belligerent leader who was consumed by the domino theory (the image of dominoes falling across a map of southeast Asia recurs throughout the film) and was determined to win the conflict before it had even started...
...loyalty to Bin Laden may today function as trainers-of-trainers, and capitalizing on Bin Laden's years of investment in training and funding for tens of thousands of the footsoldiers of localized Islamist movements throughout the Arab world and among Muslims from China to Chechnya, East Africa to Southeast Asia. And the U.S. invasion of Iraq has dramatically boosted the growth potential of this more diffuse jihadi movement over which al-Qaeda can still claim parentage. Analysts such as those at the prestigious Institute of International Strategic Studies in London (which hosted President Bush's speech on Wednesday) believe...