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Dara O'Rourke is a research associate at the Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC), and a consultant to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vietnam. His research focuses on strategies for preventing adverse environ mental and social impacts of industrial activities. He has been conducting research in Vietnam for the last three years. Mr. O'Rourke has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank, and the U.S. Environmental Prote ction Agency. Mr. O'Rourke has a Bachelors degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and Political Science, and a Masters degree from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He is c urrently completing his Ph.D. at Berkeley.
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Seventeen years after escaping Vietnam, a small group of refugees remain stranded in the Philippines. Not recognised by Vietnam and given only temporary residency status in the Philippines, they live with an uncertain future. [full story]
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July 7, 1997, Monday Journal of Commerce Vietnam protects its labor force; Foreign investors face fines for infractions. Left untold in Garry Trudeau's satirical comic strip is the hard line Vietnam has taken toward foreign investors that overstep their bounds.extent to which that hard line adheres to standards set by the International Labor Organization... could lead to tensions with organized labor in the United States.
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The setback suffered by the United States in the Vietnam War was rooted in a failure of strategy. Indeed, perhaps no war in American history shows more clearly both the difficulties of making sound strategic judgments and the dire consequences of a lack of clear strategic vision. The Vietnam War ... provides a cautionary tale for American political and military decision-makers about the crucial importance of thinking clearly about strategy. By incorrectly relating military strategy to national policy and by improperly understanding the nature of the conflict, the United States exhausted itself against a secondary enemy in South Vietnam. The American failure in Vietnam also stemmed from trying to fight a traditional conventional war when the conflict's nature demanded a counterinsurgency effort. Top military commanders, unable to fathom the problem, refused to implement such a strategy despite evidence of its effectiveness.
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By late 1961, the Viet Cong had won control of virtually half of South Vietnam with little local opposition. The United States increased its military and economic aid to combat the Communist threat and at the same time put pressure on President Diem for democratic reforms. In Apr., 1961, Diem was reelected president, but many voters boycotted the election. Resentment against the government was dramatized by the Buddhist crisis, which erupted in May, 1963, as a result of government persecution. A number of self-immolations by Buddhist monks followed. Large antigovernment demonstrations provoked police shootings, mass arrests, and more repressive government measures.
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The anger, division, and bitter cynicism that grew out of Nixon's expansion of the Vietnam war divided the nation. And with the publication of the Pentagon papers, more and more Americans felt that their government had lied to them about the war. It is in this context of increasing anger and bitterness towards President Nixon and the government that Nixon concludes that he must take charge. Feeling his enemies and the increasing American opposition to the war in Vietnam is a threat to the nation, Nixon decides to use the power of the government to crush his enemies. And ... Watergate becomes the final tragedy of the American involvement in Vietnam. President Nixon and the United States government actually try to silence the collective voices of the American people.
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