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…a persistent social and political instability which in May 1998 led to total economic paralysis. Indonesia still has not recovered since the fall of Suharto. After Indonesia in terms of potential petrochemical demand growth is Vietnam. Its petrochemical industry…

…Grafton" and later on, his BN (bombardier/navigator) Lt. Comdr. Virgil "Tiger" Cole. Coonts, having flown A-6A Intruder bombers in the Vietnam War himself, is thus qualified to tell this sort of story, and intimately knows all of the sensations, dangers…

…Of all the conflicts that the United States engaged in during the late 20th century, none invoked the ire of its citizens more than Vietnam. Even now it is somewhat of a taboo, something that if spoken about wrongly, could incur the wrath of those around…

…I have started to read books by Admiral Jeremiah Denton around 4 years ago after I had the opportunity to meet with him, while I was serving in the military. He had talked about different events that happen in the Vietnam war but never talked about his…

…, considering his father, George H. W. Bush, was our nation's 41st president. He has served our country in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, and he earned his Master's Degree from Harvard Business School. President Bush then moved back to his…

…backup with any credible evidence, is that it was the president's plans for Vietnam that prompted his murder. That by 1963 (the assassination year), the United States was becoming more and more involved in the Vietnam War. The U.S. had already sent supplies…

…and on Holocaust survivors. Careful research and documentation of PTSD began in earnest after the Vietnam War. The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study estimated in 1988 that the prevalence of PTSD in that group was 15.2% at that time and that 30% had…

….         He easily won the nomination on the first ballot at the convention and chose the governor of Maryland as his running mate. Vice-president Humphrey, his Democratic opponent, was placed under stress by Nixon from the unsuccessful war in Vietnam's…

…to risk war, complied, eliminated all the missiles in range. Nevertheless, war between the US and the USSR was coming, directly or not, in the form of Vietnam. Vietnam was a small French colony south of China. After France lost the French-Vietnamese war…

…, eschewing Travis in favor of an empty hallway, rejecting him from his own movie. Writer Paul Schrader, is homage to and reworking of cinematic influences, a study of individual psychosis, and an acute diagnosis of the latently violent, media-fixated Vietnam era…