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Nha Trang
Nha Trang , city (1989 est. pop. 263,100), E central S Vietnam, a commercial port on the South China Sea. It has an important fishing industry. It was the site of a major U.S. military base in the Vietnam War; the base extended 15 mi (24 km) south to the harbor of Cam Ranh Bay. The city has a commer... Read more
anti-Vietnam War movement
anti-Vietnam War movement domestic and international reaction (1965-73) in opposition to U.S. policy during the Vietnam War . During the four years following passage of the Tonkin Gulf resolution (Aug., 1964), which authorized U.S. military action in Southeast Asia, the American air war intensif... Read more
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders 1945-, German filmmaker, b. Düsseldorf. During the late 1960s he attended film school and worked as a film critic in Munich. Wenders first attracted attention with The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1971), a film whose themes of alienation and rootlessness are subsequently... Read more
echo sounder
echo sounder an older instrumentation system for indirectly determining ocean floor depth. Echo sounding is based on the principle that water is an excellent medium for the transmission of sound waves and that a sound pulse will bounce off a reflecting layer, returning to its source as an echo. The... Read more
Vietnam
Vietnam , officially Socialist Republic of Vietnam, republic (2005 est. pop. 83,536,000), 128,400 sq mi (332,642 sq km), Southeast Asia. Occupying the eastern coastline of the Southeast Asian peninsula, Vietnam is bounded by China on the north, by Laos and Cambodia on the west, and by the Gulf of To... Read more
Vietnam War
Vietnam War conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. The war began soon after the Geneva Conference provisionally divided (1954) Vietnam at 17° N lat. into the Democratic Rep... Read more
Cam Ranh Bay
Cam Ranh Bay , inlet of the South China Sea, 10 mi (16 km) long and 20 mi (32 km) wide, S Vietnam. It is an excellent harbor linked to the sea by a strait (1 mi/1.6 km wide). The bay was the site of one of the largest U.S. military facilities (est. 1965) in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and w... Read more
Dove
Dove , river, c.40 mi (60 km) long, rising in the Pennines, Derbyshire, central England, and flowing S and SE to the River Trent near Burton upon Trent. It forms much of the Derbyshire-Staffordshire boundary. Its watercourse was a haunt of Izaak Walton and still provides fishing. The rocky and woo... Read more
Tet offensive
Tet offensive 1968, a series of crucial battles in the Vietnam War . On Jan. 31, 1968, the first day of the celebration of the lunar new year, Vietnam's most important holiday, the Vietnamese Communists launched a major offensive throughout South Vietnam. It took weeks for U.S. and South Vietnames... Read more
Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin NW arm of the South China Sea, c.300 mi (480 km) long and 150 mi (240 km) wide, between Vietnam and China. The shallow gulf (less than 200 ft/60 m deep) receives the Red River. Haiphong, Vietnam, and Peihai (Pakhoi), China, are the chief ports. An alleged attack (Aug., 1964) by North... Read more

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Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/2/2005; 700+ words ; ...move which will haunt generations...masked by a still rapidly rising...FOLLOWING Brown's change, actuaries...Balls, Brown's normally sensible...Chancellor's and he must...Enron, the U.S. firm which...There are echoes of Vietnam. President...
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 11/11/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Bosnia. "The U.S. position was...to comply with U.N. resolutions...enough to remember Vietnam," he said. "The thing that haunts me is I'll...but there's some little echo in the back of...trouble me. "I still think the results...
Arnett says he erred in `not blowing the whistle' on CNN report
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/9/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...came back to haunt Peter Arnett...job. ``It's true about Vietnam. We never get...flawed story about U.S. troops using...Arnett since Vietnam, where he won...American - an echo from the Vietnam...military people still nurse grudges...
Program pairs injured veterans, service dogs
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 9/6/2009; ; 602 words ; ...helicopters still haunts William Callahan decades after Vietnam combat left...that made the echoes stop and kept...a Veteran's Affairs canine...canine program's Web site touts...groups in the U.S. that...his back in Vietnam and was paralyzed...
Wrong folks to get Values Training
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 6/2/2006; ; 696 words ; ...tell us, U.S. soldiers in...Training. That's reassuring...9 percent of U.S. troops don...that village in Vietnam was far worse - but the echoes are inevitable...those of us who still have memories...what ghosts will haunt him for the rest...
'Winter Soldiers' Tell Stories of War
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 3/16/2008; ; 619 words ; ...in Iraq many U.S. soldiers and Marines...Soldier. That's an echo of a similar recounting...war horror stories Vietnam vets told at a controversial...JABBAR MAGRUDER (U.S. Army): If anybody...saw and did there still haunts him. Mr. ERIC WARSESKI...
The Long View.(Column)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/7/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...is lying very still on his back and...days. "It's some kind of...the room that's . . ." The adviser's remarks were...THIS ANOTHER VIETNAM?' EXPERTS ASK...refused to allow U.N.-backed...and China, the echoes of a troubled...out again to haunt the likes of...
Metaphors of War
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 5/10/2003; ; 664 words ; ...japan. For others, Vietnam is the metaphor...brutal destruction haunts our vision of U.S. soldiers pacifying...Never again will the U.S. commit troops...and Viet Nam are still part of the lived...earlier time. It echoes the deals offered...