THE ARMCHAIR AUSTRALIAN – 1971-1972 ARRIVING IN Peking is rather like arriving in Canberra. True, a few details don’t quite match, like the massive glass-plated airport building adorned with the propaganda trappings of the socialist State. Someone has ploughed up the spaces between the runways in yet another bid to
MoreNATION, JULY 8, 1972 A lot of us were wrong about the Vietnam war back in 1965. For a start, few guessed that the pro-communist Vietnamese would hold out for seven years against the sheer weight of U.S. military superiority. The Vietnam rebellion seemed headed for the same scrapheap as
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