Word: war-torn
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Contemporary industrial Japan is living testimony to this pattern. Japan's rise to world leadership in science and technology resulted directly from American reconstruction of the war-torn islands. The United States set out to build, in her own image, the enemy she had destroyed. And the indigenous population, embarrassed by its defeat, accepted with open arms the conqueror's values, priorities and social systems in return for capital and leadership...
Cambodia. This war-torn Southeast Asian country is on the threshold of national liberation. Criminal American air strikes, which have reached new peaks of barbarism in the past several weeks, will finally end at midnight tonight. A flurry of peace rumors is blowing out of Phnom Penh, Peking and Washington, but even a last minute face-saving settlement cannot disguise the fact that American imperialism has lost another...
...author's other novels are as impressive as this one is futile. The Painted Bird follows the frightful journey of a small boy as he stumbles through war-torn Poland searching for his parents, while Steps observes a refugee's nightmarish encounters with America. A reader trying to account for the disparity between those books and The Devil Tree is driven to the not entirely convincing conclusion that Kosinski, who is a Pole, has strayed too far from his artistic roots. -John Skow
...governmental council of national reconciliation should be held back. That council, composed of neutralists, members of the N.L.F., and elements of the current South Vietnamese government, should be allowed to determine the future of Vietnam without political or economic interference from America. American aid to both halves of the war-torn country should be administered by the International Control Commission, and aid to the South should not have to pass through the notoriously sticky fingers of Nguyen Van Thieu...
THURSDAY: The Sand Pebbles, Gun-boat diplomacy and missionary in war-torn China in the twenties. Steve McQueen and Candice Bergan star in 1966 Robert Wise-directed adventure. Two-part showing concludes Friday. Ch. 7. 9 p.m. Color...