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Volume 9, Issue 2   Spring 1999

INTERNET WATCH

Region, General

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998

http://www.state.gov/www/global/human-rights/1998-hrp-report/

Reports are available for Cambodia, Laos and Vietam, as well as other countries.

Cambodia

NGO Forum on Cambodia

www.camnet.com.kh/ngoforum

Newly launched site has information on NGO Forum activities including material of special interest to its various working groups (e.g. Environment, Landmines, Civil Society, Women's Affairs, etc.) and general information about Cambodia (members of the National Assembly, members of the Royal Government, a diplomatic list, etc.). There are also links to other Cambodia-related web-sites and documents. All issues of the Cambodia News Digest and the Electronic Index to The Cambodia Daily are available at the site. This would be a good Cambodia site to bookmark, as it will be regularly updated.

CDRI-Online, the Cambodia Development Resource Institute

http://www.cdri.org.kh

Running since June 1998, features an online version of the quarterly Cambodia Development Review.

Andy Bower

http://www.btinenternet.com/~andy.brower/index.html

Bower's site, also recommended by Cambodia News Digest, contains a travelogue with text and photos from the Brit's several trips to Cambodia. He also included an impressive bibliography of English-language books about Cambodia.

Marcel Stoessel

http://www.spectraweb.ch/~mstoes/cambodia.htm

The Cambodia News Digest recommends Swiss journalist Marcel Stoessel's web site. He spent three months in Cambodia last yar as a travel writer and election observer, and has put together a long text about his experiences in Cambodia that discusses the politically tense period before, during and after the elections. He also writes about his treks through Rattanakiri, Mondulkiri, Kompong Som and Pailin. The report contains some useful and up to date travel information and a number of photographs. The entire text comes to 27 pages and can be downloaded as a single file if you don't want to read it online.

Vietnam

Destination Vietnam

http://www.destinationvietnam.com

Global Directions Incorporated presents a comprehensive site on visiting Vietnam. email: gdisf@aol.com.

CONFERENCES

Contemporary Vietnam: International Faculty Development Seminar

July 2000

Sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange. Information available in August, 1999.

Request materials from Council on International Educational Exchange; International Faculty Development Seminars; 205 East 42nd Street; New york, NY 10017; fax: (212) 822-2779; email: ifds@ciee.org; http://www.ciee.org/ifds.

The Mekong River at Risk: The Impact of Development on the River, her Delta, and her People

May 8, 1999

Water diversion and development projects along the Mekong River are posing new and formidable threats throughout the river's basin, but most particularly in the Delta — threats not only to the Delta inhabitants' way of life and agricultural productivity, but to the river and Delta ecosystems. Scientists and engineers in Vietnam and abroad are concerned by the environmental damage to the Delta being caused by the development projects far upstream from Vietnam. These projects include large scale hydropower developments in Yunnan [China] and in Laos, and the massive Mekong water diversion projects undertaken by Thailand. The economic costs and environmental consequences of the projects, however, are being borne by people with no voice in these decisions, by people who reap no benefit from these projects, and borne most heavily by those living and farming far downstream in the Mekong Delta.

In response to the unprecedented challenges and threats posed by development to the Mekong River and Delta, the Vietnamese American Science and Technology Society (VAST) and the co-sponsors convened this conference, which focussed on the growing environmental and economic damage inflicted on the Mekong river, delta and people.

Contact: Dr. Mai of The Vietnamese American Science and Technology Society (VAST), at (626) 965-0911 Ex: 314, FAX: (626) 965-9569 or by e-mail to: mttruyet@aol.com; web site at http://www.mekong.org, e-mail to: pop@mekongforum.org or contact VAST at (626) 965-0911 Ex: 314, FAX: (626) 965-9569 or by e-mail to: mttruyet@aol.com

International Congress of Asian and North African Studies 2000

Palais des Congres, Montreal, Canada

August 27 - September 1, 2000

The XXXVIth meeting of the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS), "Oriental and Asian Studies in the Era of Globalization: Heritage and Modernity - Opportunities and Challenges," is seeking abstracts with a view to presenting at the conference. The theme is intended to be the broadest possible to encompass research on contemporary, ancient and traditional Asia and North Africa as seen through multiple disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: August 2, 1999.

For information on how to submit an abstract or on the conference in general, write: ICANAS 2000 Secretariat; Bureau des congres; Universite de Montreal; PO Box 6128, Station Downtown; Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7; Canada; tel: (514) 343-6492; fax (514) 343-6544; email: congres@bcoc.umontreal.ca; http://www.bcoc.umontreal.ca

Changing Contexts for International Educational Exchange

Chicago, Illinois

November 11-13, 1999

The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE or Council) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to helping people gain understanding and skills for living in a diverse and interdependant world. The 52nd International Conference on Educational Exchange will address the nature and complexion of the relationships thatexist among peoples and among nations as they impact international educational exchange. Council' 1999 Chicago conference will address issues such as: what tomorrow's citizens need to understand, helping others place themselves in a wider context, challenges cultural differences pose to our work, understanding conflict situations, the impact of economic uncertainty, new information and communication technologies as they help or hinder our work. The conference will focus on competing points of view in the post-Cold War world and implications for international educators at all levels.

Contact Council on International Educational Exchange; Annual Conference; 205 East 42nd Street; New york, NY 10017; fax: (212) 822-2779; email: conference@ciee.org.

EDUCATION

Education News

Curbstone Press reports that Ho Anh Thai returns to Vietnam after a succesful semester as writer-in-residence at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was a featured reader at the Harbour Front Festival in Toronto, and his recently published collection of short stories Behind the Red Mist was enthusiastically received by reviewers. Publisher's Weekly wrotethat "Ho Anh Thai's delicate use of myth and fascinating representation of postwar Vietnam yield graceful, resonant fiction finely translated in a volume that is sure to find grateful American readers."

For infomation on Curbstone Press see http://www.curbstone.org/sale.html

Belgium Helps Organize Post Graduate Course in Economics Ha Noi, Apr. 6 — A master-level course in economics and public management opened in Ha Noi on Apr. 5 under the sponsorship of the French-speaking community of Belgians. The two-year course is the first in the field and the third within the cooperation framework between Viet Nam's National Economics University and Belgium's Free University of Bruxelles. Vietnamese teachers will lecture on economics and Marxist-Leninist philosophy and their colleagues from the Bel

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EDUCATION

gian university on such professional subjects as public finance, state organization and management, business financing and state role in the market economy. The course is attended by 60 graduates from State-run management agencies, non-governmental organizations as well as research institutes. The graduates will write their dissertations in either English or French at the end of the course. The previous two courses, both on management, have over the past three years trained 205 students, of whom 69 received Master's degrees.(Vietnam News Agency)

International Studies

Flexible Borders: Migration, Citizenship and Identity Formation

Monday, June 28, 199

The Cornell University Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) presents an annual International Studies Summer Institute, which will offer a collaborative program for high school teachers that examines global issues related to high school and social-studies curricula. The emergence of new communities resulting from migration redefines how we understand ethnicity, nationalism and community within the context of fluid borders. The workshop will examine ways to increase understanding of these transitions and suggestions for addressing migration, citizenship and identity formation in the context of New York State's high school social studies curricula. Presentations will be conducted by speakers from the Latin American Studies Program, the East Asia Program, the South Asia Program, the Southeast Asia Program and the Institute for European Studies.

More Information is available through Mary Jo Dudley, associate director, Latin American Studies Program; Cornell University, 190 Uris Hall; Ithaca, Ny 14853-7601; tel: (607) 255-3345; email: mjd9@cornell.edu.

Vietnam

Council Study Center at Vietnam National University

Hanoi, Vietnam

Council sponsors a fall or spring semester program offering courses in the language, history, culture and art of Vietnam. Students take Vietnamese language at the beginning, intermediate or advanced level, and all content based courses are taught in English. The academic program is supple

mented by field trips and excursions in and around Hanoi as well as trips to

Hue and Ho Chi Minh City. Students live in the foreign student guest house with meals taken at the guest house or local restaurants. Minimum 2.75 GPA required. 15-17 semester hours recommended credit. Program fee for Spring `99 semester was $8,125. Write for current fees. (CIEE, 205 East 42nd Street; New York, NY 10017; email: info@ciee.org; http://www.ciee.org)

Open Positions

For Where There Be Dragons, Inc. is seeking leaders fluent in Vietnamese who have lived in Vietnam and have a background in education to direct their semester program in Hanoi. Contact Carey Moore at go-asia@att.net for more information.

RESOURCES

Region, General

The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights ed. Joanne Bauer and Daniel Bell. 1999. A dialog on human rights with contributions from prominent teachers, scholars and activists including Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen. The editors argue that critical intellectuals in East Asia have begun to chart a middle ground between the extreme uncompromising ends of the "Asian Values" argument stating that not all Asian states should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree. The chapters asses resources within East Asian cultural traditions that can help promote human rights in the region and address key human rights issues facing East Asia as a result of rapid economic growth in the region. ISBN: 0-521-64230-2 400 pages $57.95/$21.95 (Cambridge University Press; 40 West 20th Street; New York, NY 10011; tel: (800) 872-7423; fax: (914) 937-4712)

Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies edited by Peter Dauvergne. Empirical studies focus on Southeast Asia and Melanesia, areas with a wide variety of state and societies, from the seemingly strong states of Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam to the apparently weak states of Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. ISBN: 1-86373-983-1 220 pages $29.95 (Allen & Unwin)

The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia Since World War II by Robert J. McMahon. February 1999. Describes how US strategies of containment and empire building spiraled out of control in Southeast Asia. Investigates demoralizing experience of Vietnam is it radically undermined Us enthusiasm for the region. McMahon conceptualizes the US strategic mission as empire-building rather than merely containment to suggest a new way to understand America's role in Vietnam. ISBN: 0-231-10880-X 288 pages $45.00 (Columbia University Press; 136 South Broadway; Irvington, NY 10533; tel: (800) 944-8648; fax: (800)944-1844; email: sw426@columbia.edu; http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup)

Robert Brigham of Vassar College, Jim Blight of Brown University, and Robert McNamara appear at a program at the Asia Society in New York in May on the publication of their ground breaking book Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy. FRD Executive Director John McAuliff served as an independent observer and consultant to a February1998 US-Vietnamese dialog in Hanoi which contributed to the book, thanks to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

gian university on such professional subjects as public finance, state organization and management, business financing and state role in the market economy. The course is attended by 60 graduates from State-run management agencies, non-governmental organizations as well as research institutes. The graduates will write their dissertations in either English or French at the end of the course. The previous two courses, both on management, have over the past three years trained 205 students, of whom 69 received Master's degrees.(Vietnam News Agency)

International Studies

Flexible Borders: Migration, Citizenship and Identity Formation

Monday, June 28, 199

The Cornell University Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) presents an annual International Studies Summer Institute, which will offer a collaborative program for high school teachers that examines global issues related to high school and social-studies curricula. The emergence of new communities resulting from migration redefines how we understand ethnicity, nationalism and community within the context of fluid borders. The workshop will examine ways to increase understanding of these transitions and suggestions for addressing migration, citizenship and identity formation in the context of New York State's high school social studies curricula. Presentations will be conducted by speakers from the Latin American Studies Program, the East Asia Program, the South Asia Program, the Southeast Asia Program and the Institute for European Studies.

More Information is available through Mary Jo Dudley, associate director, Latin American Studies Program; Cornell University, 190 Uris Hall; Ithaca, Ny 14853-7601; tel: (607) 255-3345; email: mjd9@cornell.edu.

Vietnam

Council Study Center at Vietnam National University

Hanoi, Vietnam

Council sponsors a fall or spring semester program offering courses in the language, history, culture and art of Vietnam. Students take Vietnamese language at the beginning, intermediate or advanced level, and all content based courses are taught in English. The academic program is supplemented by field trips and excursions in and around Hanoi as well as trips to

Bridges is a twelve minute video which explores the memories of the journeys by Souheast Asians to the US and their subsequent resettlement in American Society. The video was crafted from a variety of materials, including still photographs, home video, file footage from news and international organizations, newspaper clippings, artwork, textiles, traditional music and computer graphics. Images are woven with voices of Southeast Asians to tell poignant stories of their journey, settlement and hopes for the future. (Southeast Asian Resource Action Center; 1628 16th Street NW, 3rd Floor; Washington, DC 20009; tel: (202) 667-4690)

Terms of Refuge: The Indochinese Exodus and International Response by W. Courtland Robinson. Since the Japanese invasion of 1942, much of Southeast Asia has been racked by war. In the last 20 years alone, three million people fled their homes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This is their story. It is also the story of the interantional community's response. The UN agency responsible, UNHCR, pioneered innovations like the Orderly Departure Programme, anti-piracy and rescue at sea efforts, and later on, ambitious reintegration projects for returnees. Today the camps are closed and half a million people have returned home. Over two million have started new lives in the United States, Canada, Australia and France. Courtland Robinson teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. $27.95. (Southeast Asian Resource Action Center; 1628 16th Street NW, 3rd Floor; Washington, DC 20009; tel: (202) 667-4690)

Cambodia

A Cambodian Prison Portrait: One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21 by Vann Nath. This is the tale of a survivor of the Khmer Rouge's secret prison, Toul Sleng or S-21, where more than 14,000 men, women and children were tortured and executed during the Khmer Rouge regime. The author, Vann Nath is one of the only survivors of the notorious prison. A trained artist, he was put to work painting portraits of Pol Pot instead of being killed. Vann Nath returned to Toul Sleng after the Museum of Genocide was founded in late 1979, where he painted scenes of the prison life he had experienced. Those paintings hang at the Toul Sleng Museum of Genocide today. 136 pages. ISBN: 974-8434-48-6. (White Lotus Press; 11/2 Soi 58, Sukhumvit Road; Bangkok 10250; Thailand; tel: 66 2 741 6287; fax: 66 2 741 6607; email: ande@loxinfo.co.th; http://www.thailine.com/lotus)

The Mekong: A Turbulent River 1999. The Mekong flows for nearly 3,000 miles through Asia, beginning in the Himalayas and ending at the South China Sea. This four-part series combines interviews and photography to present the geography of one of the world's longest rivers and the industries, customs and concerns of the people who call the Mekong states home. The series includes The Mekong in Tibet and China, The Mekong in Laos and Thailand, The Mekong in Cambodia and The Mekong in Vietnam. CCM8825-CCM8828 52 minutes each $89.95 each (Films for the Humanities and Sciences; PO Box 2053; Princeton, NJ 08543; tel (800) 257-5126; fax (609) 275-3767; email: custserv@films.com; http://www.films.com)

Minefields: Coping with Life in Cambodia. Though the Khmer Rouge has been slowly dismantled and the government of Cambodia is democratically elected, the wounds from one of the worst reigns of terror in the twentieth century are slow to heal. This program presents the stories of noncombatants who experienced the terrors of civil war, which ranged from displacement to genocide; survived invasion; and endured forced labor, highlighting the psychological after effects of a population still in shock. CCM8823 50 Minutes, Color $149 (rental $75) (Films for the Humanities and Sciences; PO Box 2053; Princeton, NJ 08543; tel (800) 257-5126; fax (609) 275-3767; email: custserv@films.com; http://www.films.com)

Cambodia Development Resource Institute

Working Papers Series.

Recent titles from the working paper series from the last quarter of 1998 and the beginning of 1999 include:

Regional Economic Integration for Sustainable Development in Cambodia, Toshiyasu Kato et al. (Working Paper 5, Sep 1998) 34pp, $10. The Khmer edition of paper 5 was published in Nov 1998. CDRI is currently working on translations of papers 6 to 8.

Food Security in an Asian Transitional Economy: The Cambodian Experience, K. A. S. Murshid (Working Paper 6, Dec 1998) 86pp, $14

Interdependence in Household Livelihood Strategies in Two Cambodian Villages, John McAndrew (Working Paper 7, Dec 1998) $14.

Cambodia: The Challenge of Productive Employment Creation, Chan Sophal et al. (Working Paper 8) 65pp, $14

The UNICEF/Community Action for Social Development Experience: Learning from Rural Development Programs in Cambodia, Teng You Ky et al. (Working Paper 9, Mar 1999) 18pp, $8.

All prices shown include international postage To order, send a US dollar check for the total amount due plus $20 (to cover bank charges) to the address below. Please make checks payable to the Cambodia Development Resource Institute. CDRI cannot dispatch orders until payment has been received. Payment can also be made by bank transfer, which requires an additional fee of $30. CDRI is unable to accept credit card payments at this point.

(Publications Program at Cambodia Development Resource Institute; PO Box 622; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; tel: (855-23) 426-103 fax: (855-23) 366-094; email: cdri@camnet.com.kh or cdri@forum.org.kh http://www.cdri.org.kh)



RESOURCES

Children of War: Responses to Psycho-Social Distress in Cambodia by Jo Boyden and Sara Gibbs. An all too common sign of the times in the United States in the 80s and 90s has been the rush of teams of grief counselors and psychologists into school settings where children have been wounded by armed classmates. On an international level, though, and on a scale well beyond tragedies experienced in the United States, children have been brutalized by war and violence and the follow up resources have been meager. The international aid community has been stretched thin dealing with peace and reconstruction in trouble spots around the globe. Children of War shows that this situation is beginning to change: this handbook draws together the lessons from a UN sponsored study of the rebuilding process in Cambodia which paid particular heed to issues of "psycho-social vulnerability." It is intended to be a resource for field workers and others in the health and international aid communities. ISBN: 92-9085-019-1 216 (UN Research Institute for Social Development, Palais des Nations; 1211Geneva 10, Switzerland)

Without Empire: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia by Arthur Isaacs. 1983. Isaacs witnessed the final years of the Vietnam War as a war correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, where he also worked as Washington Correspondent and editor. His 1983 book was widely acclaimed as "reportage at it's very best" and is now available in paperback. ISBN: 0-8018-6107-1 $17.95 (Johns Hopkin's Paperbacks; 2715 North Charles Street; Baltimore, MD 21218; http://www.press.jhu.edu)

Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community by Nancy Smith-Hefner. 1999. In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and identity in the aftermath of the Khmer holocaust. Based on research among Cambodians living in metropolitan Boston, this rich ethnography provides a vivid portrait of the challenges facing Khmer American culture as seen from the perspective of elders attempting to preserve Khmer Buddhism in a deeply unfamiliar world. The study highlights the tensions and ambivalences of Khmer socialization, with particular emphasis on Khmer conceptions of personhood, morality and sexuality.

Nancy Smith-Hefner is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. ISBN: 0-520-21348-3 232 pages $55.00/$19.95 (University of California Press; 2120 Berkeley Way; Berkeley, CA 94720; http://www.ucpress.edu)

Laos

New Laos, New Challenges ed. Jacqueline Butler-Diaz. Forthcoming in 1999. For much of the two decades since 1975, American scholars have had minimal access to Laos and to current information, but the Lao government has permitted more foreign scholars in recent years. Authors included in this collection are among those recent visitors. Papers in the volume address recent internal changes in Lao society, tradition and culture in modern Laos, and shifts in Laos' foreign relations. The collection also includes a complete indexed guide to American research on Laos over the past few decades. (Monograph Series Press; Program for Southeast Asian Studies; Arizona State University; Tempe, AZ; http://www.asu.edu/clas/asian/seamono.html)

Vietnam

Vietnam Long Time Coming from World TEAM Sports. In January 1998, a single team of athletes, including American and Vietnamese veterans traveled to present day Vietnam to complete an arduous 16 day, 1200 mile bicycle expedition from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. The story of their journey was captured in the award winning documentary film from the directors of Hoop Dreams.

Power Struggle

The Impacts of Hydro-Development in Laos

Acting on the advice of the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, Laos has borrowed millions of dollars to develop its hydropower resources for export to Thailand. In spite of the government's hopes that this will fuel national development, the International Rivers Network believes the strategy is not working. This publication offers IRN's evaluation of the economic, social and environmental impacts of hydropower development in Laos. Based on field visits and interviews conducted in 1998, Power Struggle contains six case studies of hydropower projects at various stages of implementation.

The report alleges poor economic viability, forcible resettlement, uncontrolled logging, inadequate compensation for affected people, and poor quality environmental impact assessments. A fundamental rethinking of Lao PDR's economic development strategy is recommended, as well as far-reaching reforms to ensure that any future hydropower development is in what the authors see as the best interests of the country as a whole. The report includes case studies of Nam Theun-Hinboun, Nam Leuk, Nam Theun 2, Houay Ho, Xe Pian-Xe Namnoi and Xe Kaman 1. 68 pages, photos, maps.

$15 plus $2 for shipping within the US, $3.50 Canada and Mexico, and $7 shipping overseas.

To purchase the report, go to <http://www.irn.org> (secure server) or send a check to International Rivers Network, 1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley CA 94703.

RESOURCES

To accompany Vietnam Long Time Coming, Columbia has released a musical CD which features music from and inspired by the documentary. The CD features selections by Bruce Springsteen, Soul Asylum, Shawn Colvin, Richie Havens, Emmylou Harris and Ben Sidran. Proceeds from the sale of the film and CD will support on-going medical and educational outreach initiatives between the United States and Vietnam. Video, $19.95/ CD $17.95 (World TEAM Sports; 2108 South Boulevard, Suite 101; Charlotte, NC 28203; tel: (888) 840-1455.)

One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam Timothy N. Castle March, 1999. One of the Vietnam War's most closely guarded secrets-a highly classified US radar base in the mountains of neutral Laos - led to the disappearance of a small group of elite military personnel, a loss never fully acknowledged by the American government. Now, thirty years later, one book recounts the harrowing story - and offers some measure of closure on this decades old mystery.

Timothy N. Castle served two tours in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, flying over Laos from Nakhon Phanom Air Force Base on thirty-eight combat support missions. Since 1990, he has traveled to Laos frequently as a researcher and senior Department of Defense POW/MIA investigator for Laos, and as a consultant for NBC News. He is an Associate Professor of National Security Studies at Air University, teaching courses at the Air War and Command and Staff Colleges at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. He is also the author of At War in the Shadow of Vietnam (Columbia). He lives in Montgomery, Alabama. ISBN: 0-231-10316-6

352 pages $29 (Columbia University Press; 136 South Broadway; Irvington, NY 10533; tel: (800) 944-8648; fax: (800)944-1844; email: sw426@columbia.edu; http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup)

Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall. May 1999. Logevall examines one of the last great unanswered question on the war: could the tragedy have been avoided? He traces US decision making on Vietnam from the beginning of the Kennedy administration through the announcement of the American ground war in July 1965.

Fredrik Logevall is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. ISBN: 0-520-21511-7 443 pages 35.00 (University of California Press; 2120 Berkeley Way; Berkeley, CA 94720; http://www.ucpress.edu) My Lai and Why it Matters by Ron Ridenhour. Produced by Randy Fertel. Ridenhour's last talk at Tulane is available on videotape. This is the only lecture Fertel was allowed to tape; Ridenhour died within two months, and the tape is a tribute to his work.

"Ron Ridenhour's story of the My Lai massacre cover-up is an extraordinary piece of oral history. It is a powerful, moving account, told simply, but impossible to ignore. I hope that young people all over the country will see this tape and think about its meaning." —Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the US. Individual use, $25 or $50 instructional and institutional use. $5 Shipping and handling (Randy Fertel; Tulane University; 419 Walnut St.; New Orleans LA 70118; email: rfertel@aol.com; tel: (504) 862-0707; fax: (504) 862-0040)

Health and Wealth in Vietnam: An Analysis of Household Living Standards edited by Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton, Sarah Bales, Truong Thi Kim Chuyen and Nguyen Nguyet Nga. 1999. How do Vietnamese households live and work? This book answers many of the most important questions, including: Who uses contraceptives? Which children get the most health care? Who are the poor and why are they poor? Which families migrate? Why do so many rural workers change jobs? The fourteen chapters are based on the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, and use statistical techniques in every chapter to give the book coherence and clarify the analysis. ISBN: 981-230-033-3 290 pages $32.00/$18.90 soft cover (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang, Singapore 119614; tel: 8702447; fax: 7756259; email: pubsunit@iseas.edu.sg; http://www.iseas.edu.sg/pub.html)

ORDINARY LIVES: PLATOON 1005 AND THE VIETNAM WAR

by W.D. Ehrhart

Temple University Press, ISBN 1-56639-674-3

In the summer of 1966, in the middle of the Vietnam War, eighty young volunteers arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island, South Carolina. Twenty-seven years after basic training, Ehrhart began what became a five-year search for the men of his platoon. Based on supporting materials from military records and family members as well as interviews this book records the more-than-30-year journey that each man took after his boot-camp graduation on August 12, 1966.

W.D. Ehrhart is Research Fellow in American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea. He lives in Philadelphia. He is active in Vietnam Veterans Against the War

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