and the north vietnamese refused to talk. so when walter cronkite intoned, you know, son rousely, it is now time for johnson to go to the bargaining table, johnson was already there. it was the north vietnamese who did not want to talk. but after tet they agreed to talk because after tet they really had nothing left. they were militarily weakened, and they were in danger of the u.s. escalating and attacking them. so they agreed to talk to try to forestall that. but johnson wasn't going to escalate anyway. general wheeler, the chairman of the joint chiefs, had suggested this. general westmoreland had called for more troops. a debate broke out in the administration, should we, shouldn't we? it went on for a long time. if we do escalate, how many troops? do we go over our troop cap? basically, for two months they argued it to death and, ultimately, johnson -- after news of this debate leaked to "the new york times," their great headlines about, you know, a secret escalation in the works, you know, this kind of thing, and johnson

unless you are vietnamese, in which case, i was a very happy year of the cat. after 160 years, this year is truly history. i am honored to serve with you, not just with the diversity that our board of supervisors represents -- and i want to thank ross mirkarimi, david campos, and malia cohen who are here with us today -- but it is an honor to serve with three other asian-american supervisors. we finally reflect the population statistics that we have here in san francisco. more importantly, it was an incredible honor earlier this year to take part in an historic, unanimous vote for the first time in our city's history to have an elected leader at the top of galt mountain, our first chinese- american mayor, edwin lee. [applause] as i look out onto the audience and i see who we all represent, i see our chinese a brother and sisters, our japanese and korean on and on calls, our cousins from the filipino community, the vietnamese community, the cambodian community, thai community, burmese community. i want to thank you all for making up the diaspora of our diverse c

>>hoang: the vietnamese between 20-30 years old now, they're just different from how i see when i was 20 and 30, they have no. it seems like they have no - they don't look far, they don't live in that mould where, you know, our parents used you live where you have to save, save, save because you never know what's tomorrow, you never know what vietnam's going to become tomorrow, they seem to be much more free spirited >>reporter: it's a young country, 60% of the population are under 35. there's also a new generation of middle-class vietnamese, educated at universities in the west who have now returned home, bringing an international mind-set and capitalist dreams to this socialist-orientated market economy. >>people like henry nguyen, a harvard graduate, who heads a venture capitalist company in ho chi minh city. >>nguyen: i guess i'll co-opt a phrase from the clinton campaign, it's the demographic stupid, you know, like it's this is a young up and coming country, people here are very ambitious, very optimistic, very hard working and because of that you basically have a country really

>>trung: the thinking of the vietnamese people is very positive and that's important, everyone thinks tomorrow is better and that we can do something tomorrow and we don't have time to think of the past, that's the key element to the fast development of the economy >>still to come on world business... >>half of modern marriages end in failure and a whole industry has sprung up to cater for the business of divorce >>and the sport with runaway bulls that has become a runaway success in the us >>we'll sell almost 2m tickets this year just in the united states. and then we've got events in canada, brazil, mexico and australia too. >>bucking the downturn... and the rest in just a moment on world business... >>in western europe the number of divorces has increased three fold over the past thirty years. while a breakup can be a traumatic experience for those involved, it has created a whole new industry for businesses helping couples muddle through their break up and then get on with the rest of their lives. >>reporter: sophie and eric married last year and have invited some friends over to

and my restaurant is a vietnamese gourmet shop, and we are attempting to create 20 to 25 full and part-timejobs there, and currently what is going on is that i have a prohibition on my use that prohibits me from getting a beer and wine license, although i am primarily a lunch location. we cannot release survive on fillmore street, and getting a beer and wine license -- [bell] >> i am sorry. i am over my time. i wrote to the planning department to ask to see how i could get this restriction removed, and i was told that currently the status quo is depth i wrote -- is that through the conditional use the process, i would have to change to a full-service restaurant first before i could apply for the beer and wine rest -- license, which does not make sense, because i do not have any servers, so i was told that if this particular legislation passes, then i could get the type 41 license. so that is kind of where i am act, and i am hoping that you guys will support his legislation -- so that is kind of where ibm -- where i am at. supervisor mar: is there anyone else from the public who would like t

actually celebrated by many ethnic groups within the asian american pacific families, including vietnamese-americans, caribbean-americans, and others. in san francisco, we celebrated with our parade. -- korean-americans, and others. we celebrated the whole month to welcome everybody. it is supposed to be a year of good luck, a year of prosperity and good health so on behalf of mayor edwin lee, i want to welcome you here this evening. [speaking chinese] so we have the celebration in san francisco welcome the community to celebrate the chinese new year for many years now but this year we are particularly excited and very happy because this is an historic year where we are hosted by our first chinese- american mayor. [applause] this is another historic occasion. [speaking chinese] at this time, without further ado, i want to bring up our mayor, mayor edwin lee. [applause] >> thank you, claudine. good evening, everybody. happy new year. i am very honored to join supervisor chu, a supervisor carmen chu, eric mar, and jane kim, and supervisor campos, supervisor mirkarimi, malia cohen is here as well. it i

and from what i understand, post-war interviews of the north vietnamese found that it didn't do that, in fact, it steeled their resolve and really sort of infuriated them. and i know these drone attacks, as i understand it, are controlled by bill gates wannabes in california with their joysticks. >> right. >> now, if i had a family member killed by a drone attack and controlled by a bill gates wannabe 10,000 miles away, i would be enormously upset. so my question is what is the impact of these drone attacks? when they are surgically applied, that's great. but you read about these things where a family of six is killed, and i think just one of those incidents sets us back so far, that i just question the net effect of the drones. >> you know, i just, i don't know. i mean, you could argue either side of those kinds of things. i don't know. i know what i would do if i were in charge, i'd crank 'em up even more. but that doesn't mean that you're not right and that what we're not doing is just stirring up the hornet's nest. and that get back to this great hole that radical islam -- hold th

sisters, our japanese and korean on and on calls, our cousins from the filipino community, the vietnamese community, the cambodian community, thai community, burmese community. i want to thank you all for making up the diaspora of our diverse community. and i want to thank those of you who are not asian on the outside but our asian on the inside. [applause] thank you for being part of the richness of who we are common here in san francisco. and i want to thank all of you who are the community leaders of this wonderful city that was founded as col down. we know we have had struggles over the decades and have accomplished many things. but i want to take a moment to say a quick thanks to those of you who are working to make sure that our asian american brothers and sisters, and grandparents who are still living in sro's, i want to thank you for the work you are doing for them. the work we are doing for asian- american brothers and sisters who still today may not have health insurance or child care. for young people who may not have access to the youth services they need. or to our grandparen

my understanding, after talking with many chinese, vietnamese, asian immigrant recyclers, their district is well served by that institution. which was one of the reasons why richmond seemed to be well served, even though there was not a neighborhood center within the district. is that correct? >> that is correct. the safeway that you are referring to, when they did the redesign they did not put in a recycling center or redemption center. we are meeting actively with safeway to discuss the options with rolling out the in store redemptions. and this slide, because part of this hearing today, we wanted to provide statistics about the materials being provided on the site. these numbers are from 2010. you can see that there are 920 tons, 65% of everything coming into the center, about 17%. 290 tons. paper is 270 tons. construction and demolition is 212%. in total they are bringing in 1,682 tons. that is how it breaks down and as part of the overall diversion rate but we were talking about. one interesting point of note is as a couple of these centers have closed over the years, paint -- hank

as we are able to, we will translate them into russian, vietnamese, singala, and i want to go back and do a translation in japanese for a lot of our japanese restaurants. as much as we possibly can, our education and outreach materials will be in other languages. >> on the category of having a listing of those that complied, is there a database or resource file that basically addresses similar compliances? for example, four-inch resolutions, where a transition in step really applies to a restaurant, a residence, and a bunch of other buildings -- it is more solution-based information, as opposed to those that have been allowed to be permitted. i guess what i am trying to say is that it is solution-based. a home owner or property owner can do it themselves, or look at the solution-based inspection on their own part before they moved to the next category. >> if i am understanding your question correctly, we do not have an actual database, except for the access appeals commission to maintain a list of types of appeals that have been presented. by category, probably the first is garage heig

authorized compensation for the veterans and their children who had been affected but thousands of vietnamese some of them third generation who suffer from illnesses and birth defects are still fighting for compensation. congressman jim mcdermott as a young doctor saw firsthand the effects of agent orange on american soldiers last may mcdermott introduced an amendment forcing the government to conduct a comprehensive study on the health effects of dui on veterans back then pentagon tonight at aging orange posed any threat to u.s. soldiers who are exposed. during all those years of denial we stood by and did nothing while our soldiers suffered and for me there can be no more asian ornge we have to think of that in terms of this do you it do you possesses no danger or poses no danger we need to prove it statistically and with independent scientific studies we owe our soldiers a full measure of the truth where ever that leads us. mcdermott's amendment passed its first hurdle and the amendment is agreed to. but there's no guarantee that this will become law at the us or any other country using do

be offering the soup, there are going to be people with -- that have grilled cheese sandwiches, vietnamese sandwiches, each vendor will pay up to $3,000 for their permits, that's about $7,000 less than their predecessors, and they will be able to get up to 7 different location, now the department of public works say that their office won't be open until tomorrow morning, there is no limit on how many permits they are going to be offering but there is a really important reason why these people want to be first in line. >> it's all about location you know. there are spots in the city that are going to be up for sale which could make or break your business. >> reporter: for example? >> well i can't say. we're all -- >> reporter: give me a hint. >> well you know if you're serving late night there are going to be spots near the mission with a lot of clubs that don't have a lot of food which we're going to be able to pull up on the corner and sell to the hungry masses. and also, there are sections of the financial district in downtown. >> reporter: so what do we have? >> there will be rules. onl

we've got all kinds of vendors, soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, vietnamese, indian sandwiches, hot dogs and pizza. each vendor will pay up to $3,000 for their permit. now that's $7,000 less than their predecessors who are already operating food trucks in the city. they will be able to get up to 7 different locations. the department of public works department office won't open until tomorrow morning and there won't be any limit on how many permits will be issued but these entrepreneurs say there is a real important reason why they want to be first in line. >> it's all about location. you know, there are spots in this city that are going to be up for sale which could make or break your business. >> reporter: for example? >> well i can't say. >> reporter: give me a hint. >> well you know, if you're serving late night there are going to be spots in the mission or near a lot of districts where clubs don't have a lot of food so we're going to be able to pull up on the corner and sell to the hungry masses. and also, there are sections of the financial district downtown. >> reporter: so what do

loss of civilian life should the coalition intervention actually take place they are now even more vietnamese that is stating that the matter in the conflict that is currently ongoing in libya is a domestic matter and that the coalition forces would only bring more destruction and destabilization not only of course to libya but to the. entire region as a whole in north africa could potentially be. unsettled even further by the current intervention undertaken by the coalition forces sigil of both is of course expected to discuss not only the consequences of the ongoing intervention but also the potential consequences for the region as a whole will be keeping you updated when those meetings take place for our country as are both thank you for now. well us in the forefront of the strikes on libya deploying some of its heaviest firepower against gadhafi regime that despite washington insisting for days that the u.s. with munich there supporting roe is going to karen says there's more to come. the pentagon says they do not rule out more strikes quote if and when the need arises if you want america

principally defeated fascism then the chinese had a revolution in forty nine in the korean revolution the vietnamese revolution so working people around the world were in a state of uprising against colonial oppression and class oppression and they were sympathizers and activists and socialist and communist in the united states and of course they were loyal to that revolutionary process that you were seeking had on a few different aspects what did you want to touch and hundreds of across all the soviet for the defense of passionately forty's and early fifty's is a patently false absurd joke second of all the the there were the ones that were fostering the communist revolution workers communist revolution out in korea of the people i hear from you know now yeah yeah it's you know you can get you know is a very powerful leadership and if you can make all the people in vietnam rise up and corral your time your heart is there in taking your distance down and this and beyond that and if rosen.

troops died and millions more vietnamese died before the inevitable u.s. withdrawal and if you are against what bradley manning has done over allegedly done which is told the truth about the situation in afghanistan if you're against that then you're saying you're for all of those tens of thousands more soldiers we're going to be sent to their deaths we're going to be sent to get their legs blown off for a war that this government knows very well is lost now i don't sell michael you were an iraq war veteran and when you sign up to join the military i mean you take an oath to to swear this country and to stand by the laws of this country so let me put this question to you did he violate paddler irish allegedly releasing that information. oh he sort o. is to defend his country defend his friends and his family and his coworkers and his neighbors here in the united states and if he did release these documents he has done exactly that we have no reason to support these words these words are costing us over seven hundred million dollars a day at a time where in

principally defeated fascism then the chinese had a revolution in forty nine in the korean revolution the vietnamese revolution so working people around the world were in a state of operating against colonial oppression and class oppression and they were sympathizers and activists and socialists and communists in the united states and of course they were loyal to that revolutionary process you are seeking your head on a few different aspects of what it is you want to touch and hundreds of a cross all the soviets in the defense of passion late forty's and early fifty's as a patently false absurd joke second of the the there were the ones that were fast during the communist revolutions not workers communist revolution to korea. yes yes there's no if you care you don't is a very powerful leadership and if you can make all the people in vietnam rise up and you know harder to taking their orders from star want to. yes and beyond that and if rosen bros were loyal to their class it should have rescinded their american citizenship and return to the country or go to a country that was more in line with their

principally defeated fascism then the chinese had a revolution in forty nine in the korean revolution the vietnameserevolution so working people around the world were in a state of the art rising against colonial oppression and class oppression and they were sympathizers in activists and socialism communism the united states and of course they were loyal to their revolutionary process taking their head on a few different aspects what did you want to touch upon this the great course of the soviets of the defense of passion the late forty's and early fifty's is a patently false absurd joke second of all the the there were the ones that were fostering the communist revolution start workers communist revolution. yes. it was here you know it was a very powerful leadership that if you could make all the people of vietnam rise up and. harder to taking orders from star and yes and. if rosen bros were loyal to their classes should have listened to the american citizenship and return.

in ten years later and fifty eight thousand dead americans and they will have me and did north vietnamese proved otherwise this is a civil war that's what it was in vietnam also intervening in a civil war is very. even if you know the sides in this case we only know one side we know gadhafi side and even though we did give him a welcome back we know what authority is we know that was essentially for money. we don't know what's on the other side we don't know what the resolution will be the french can go the british can fly n.s.a.'s team in them get embarrassed by having it captured we have all these kind of contacts but we really don't know what the other side consists of yet and to go in in a whole hog way and support that other side and then be responsible for what we produce by supporting other side could have some very bad consequences of course because that if we get involved there for the ones to intervene and like the centuries since i've been responsible then one of the ones that's going to be our fault no matter how we've already got a big bull's eye on our back on our front on o