Word: virtualization
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...Communist politicians. "The Cao Dai and Hoa Hao in particular are quite hostile to the Communists," observes Harvard Asian Scholar Alexander Woodside. "The Hoa Hao view Marxism as a Western creed, and they view themselves as standing for the residual culture of old Viet Nam. There has been a virtual blood feud between them and the Communists...
...week's end another group of nearly 600 refugees reached Thailand after an arduous, 3½-day truck journey from Phnom-Penh. Mostly French, the evacuees had sought haven in the French embassy when Cambodia's capital fell to the Khmer Rouge and had been virtual prisoners ever since. To the annoyance of France, one of the first non-Communist countries to recognize the Khmer Rouge, the embassy had been turned into a virtual prison. Food, medicine and communications had been cut off. After protests from Paris, the regime finally allowed the 600 out. Sidney Schanberg, a correspondent...
...last to leave him, she announced that she was staying at Haugsetvolden, a farm where they had been visiting. Karl didn't argue--he immediately sold her to the farmer for three hundred kroner, and disappeared for good. Anna stayed at Haugsetvolden the rest of her life, a virtual slave...
...salvation. High U.S. Air Force officials suspected that sabotage might have caused the C-5A crash, not faulty technology. Whatever the cause, for Americans last week the mournful events in Viet Nam represented the disintegration of a long and painful effort. For South Vietnamese they represented far more: the virtual loss of social cohesion and political identity as the last vestiges of normal life disappeared in the face of the Communist juggernaut...
Thieu's response was a characteristically confusing combination of compromise and repression. After remaining in virtual seclusion for most of the week, he announced that an entirely new Cabinet, what he called a "fighting Cabinet," would be formed. The new Prime Minister would be Nguyen Ba Can, speaker of the lower house in the National Assembly and known to be solidly in Thieu's camp. Can will replace the more independent and prestigious Tran Thieu Khiem, the most senior military officer in South Viet Nam, who, significantly, was expected to join the anti-Thieu opposition. Hours earlier, police had arrested...