we didn't begin to train the vietnamese with the object of their taking over from last until general abrams got there. this disparity of resources especially the weapons persisted throughout the tenure in vietnam. ambassador blunder noted in the 29th of february, 1968, only weeks before his departure after his four years in command. he said the enemy has been able to request his troops with sophisticated weapons. they are better equipped than the forces a fact which has an adverse bearing on the morrell. he had been there and granted the u.s. forces for nearly four years and then leader maintained he had done everything possible to build up the south vietnamese another ambassador of the time general maxwell taylor i think of his sponsorship of westmoreland was even more blunt. we never paid attention to the army, he said. we didn't give a damn about them. not until abrams came on the scene did this attitude change. 1967 was a fateful time in westmoreland's vietnam service. everyone agrees that 1968 was a full year. 1967 was equally so. during that year, westmoreland made three trips

fabulous vietnamese hoagies. american style. >> i'm still fascinated by this thing which looks like a fish tank item. you're cooking with it. >> no fish. just cooking meat. >> howard, let's get your seven- day forecast before we go. >> yeah, we've got some wind we have to be concerned with today because some of the gusts out west could be over 50 miles per hour, especially above 1,000 feet. please take that seriously. showers possible this afternoon but much better tomorrow. we'll be 567. friday, 64. saturday and sunday in the 50s. we'll be great through the holiday weekend for the return trip home for a lot of people then monday and tuesday, rain will be coming back but i guess you can cook almost anything in here. >> you can. with the vacuum seal, sure, experiment away. >> you can't overcook poultry which i'm amazed by because everybody seems to overcook poultry. >> i don't overcook poultry. we hope you have a happy thanksgiving. >> you as well. >> i hope you have a happy thanksgiving with your family. come bac

the one condition he would not meet this to turn over the vietnamese population to the communists. he wanted a pre-political process. when people say we could've ended the war were quickly, they never tell you how because if you look at the record of negotiations you'll see every see every there can -- and we were going to make that except the vietnamese approach to negotiation with us was to try to break out. i would periodical independence to negotiate on behalf of nixon that the united states. their strategy was to help us by opening to china we had the following benefits. he changed the debate showed that nixon who had been vilified as being opposed to peace in vietnam have actually a large almost grandiose conception which included the whole world. so at the same time it isolated the vietnamese because it meant to release the most nearby ally was willing to deal with the united states without informing them and to some extent to their disadvantage because it interrupted the psychological reason they thought they had established. so that was an important aspect. >> host: any na

the one condition he would not meet is to turn over the vietnamese population. he wanted the political process and people say we could have ended the war more quickly than ever tell you how because if you look at the record of negotiations you will see every other condition to be made except that one. now the vietnamese approach and a negotiation with us west to try to break us. i read every article to negotiate on behalf of nixon and the united states, and they -- their strategy was to out when us by opening to china we had developed benefits. it changed the debate. it showed that nixon who had been vilified as being opposed to peace in viet nam have actually larger grandiose exception which included the whole world, and so at the same time it isolated and the vietnamese because it meant that their closest most nearby allied bomb was willing to deal with the united states without informing them and to some extent their disadvantage because it developed a mill with tourism and the thought that was an important aspect. >> host: in any national security foreign po

a vietnamese woman artist, composure you name it she does it. i wonder if she bakes i never asked her but. this is a buddhist heart. each time i burned my body for you my heart remanipulained in . i watched the saffron flames engulf me seer my skin, flesh of a plum stripped of it's peel. tender and glowing like mars, i would rise to the sky for you to see me. in those moments i was your torch and we were united. united by the scents the heat the shutter. for love of another i'd say to myself, faithful in muted pain. my hope, my heart extinguishing as you stood there paralyzed each time like a still camera unable to look away. infraction. if my love were smooth and lustrous would you spit me open and fill me up again. would you kiss the scar you made of me name it and claim me like a mountain. bear witness to holiness where 2 rocks collide. if my was unpenetrable and clear would you search your whole life destroying me just to hold me to the light? i am listening you like rain that slips through fingers missing you like childhood dreams and mothe

vietnamese. i don't tell her that the locks have already been locked the click, click change of chain to groove. i don't tell her about my fear. i don't tell her i can't lock out the sirens, smut and paranoia of taxi cabs. the tortured baby crying scents of yeast from the bagel shop. extremes of heat and fall and unexpected rain. i don't tell her that hearing the weariness of her voice i can feel her flannel nightgown wet with my tierce much the smell of ponds cold cream makes me sad. how i long to wrap my arms around her warm bell e. instead i say, i'm fine. eating, taking subway. i don't tell her that today i wept over a bowel of ph o. >> 100 degrees cellsius. there is no going back you and i. like broth clouded by the blood. so this next poem is actually in the tears to me antholology. a vietnamese woman artist, composure you name it she does it. i wonder if she bakes i never asked her but. this is a buddhist heart. each time i burned my body for you my heart remanipulained in . i watched the

leader speaking about an hour and a half and really was a bit of a harang, very much about the vietnamese influence in cambodia. he was trying to position himself as a defender of the people saying they had to do the things they did to defend people from vietnamese incursions. >> are the ka marry refuge leadership claiming they didn't plan this general side from the top, that it was junior officials that got a bit carried away and killed these people? is that their defense? >> well, it was said this y that in 1970 when the former kepbg asked for people to join the front against the current government in cambodia there were a lot of unreliable elements which entered the khmer refugee at that point that caused chaos within the movement that. is clearly positioning himself to say it was not his people, it was the people carrying it out. but you heard him in the documentary from two years ago that some people were traitors who had to be smashed. there does seem to be a contradiction there. >> thank you. you are watching bbc world news. still to come, destination for david beckham, he hasn't d

meanwhile, westmoreland deprived the south vietnamese of modern weaponry, giving the u.s. and other allied forces priority for the issue of the new m-16 rifle and other advanced military wherewithal. the south vietnamese went for years he coped with world war ii vintage the equipment while being held by the communists to were provided to great ak-47 assault rifle and other advanced equipment by their backers the soviet union and communist china it is very important to know that it was left to westmoreland to devise his own approach to conduct the war. the conventional view of the war even now is that it was micromanaged from washington and there are many stories of how as we all know that lyndon johnson's white house, the famous luncheon and so on, he and other top civilian officials would even select and improved individual bombing targets in north vietnam. and things like that. but those decisions had to do with actions taken outside of south viet nam. within south vietnam, the u.s. commander had a very wide latitude in deciding how to fight the war. this was true for we

and is it recreates, at least in my opinion, recreates the experience of vietnamese, he was very welled. people really adored the idea that this convicted murderer had been redeemed. he was out. he was making abig success in society, etcetera etcetera. but when you look under the ver. >> charlie: everybody loves the they're of a comeback, don't they or ever can turn over -- >> a kind of new leaf. >> charlie: or you can be changed and therefore you can come from whatever the bad deed was to find god or find something that enables you. >> yes. an in this case, it happened to be not at all true. it doesn't mean it would always not be possible at all. >> charlie: was there a sense of the thrill of this and what do we know about his own reasons for doing it? >> younow, i think most serial killers, you must have read anne rule's book about ted bundy. i never got a reason out of it. and i knew a woman who actually had relationship with his psychiatrist. who once said to me, i said what would he do when you walked into the cell and she kind of said what do you mean what would he do. i said we

innovators and creative folks all around us, and third, we were getting tired of eating doughnuts and vietnamese food. so it is wonderful to be here as part of this mid-market community, moving our community forward. i am delighted to see all of these yellow jackets behind me. when there were issues of crime in the neighborhood, the city administrator and our head of our community affairs office -- we came together to think about this program, and it has been a great to see the work they have done in the southeast neighborhood, but you're sort particularly happy to see them here in south of market, so let's give a hand to our yellow jackets who will be patrolling every night of the week. [applause] like other speakers today, i cannot believe that it was barely a year ago, jennifer, when you and i started conversations about what we could do to revitalize this area. the conversations are around quarter were just starting, and it took all of us coming together [inaudible] what we needed to do here. i have on my telephone a robocall that was put out to tens of thousands of san franciscans that was

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obama will be talking to the vietnamese, the philippines, the thai during his trip. that will be one of the issues that will be raised. reassuring to the nation that china is not the only superpower. the americans do not want any kind of confrontation. they do wanted to be known that the united states is now fully in beijing with this region it for strategic reasons. -- is now fully engaging with this region for strategic reasons. to engage with trade and greater economic ties as a way of helping viet american economy, out of the difficult period. he will be here for two days. he is the fifth american president to visit australian bert lyndon johnson, george bush, and bill clinton. it is a big deal for australians to have a visit by an american president. it is kind of one of those punching above its weight moments for australia, a country of only 22 million people. it is third time lucky. president obama had to cancel to earlier visits for pressing domestic needs. he has now arrived. the third time lucky. the prime minister of australia walking out with the governor

the atrocities only ended with the vietnamese invasion in 1979. the former head was sentenced last july to 35 years in jail. he confessed to his crimes. the defendants this week maintained their innocence and may be harder to convict. >> the trial is focusing attention on the regime's use of terror to reeducate and reshape an entire population. along with starvation and slaved labor camps, there were countless other methods of the state used to breed absolute obedience. women were forced to marry government soldiers. the calculated this would help create loyal subjects. thousands of people are struggling with the bitterness of hardship those marriages have brought. >> she knows all about the terror of the regime. the woods are not visible, but -- the ones are not as visible, but she has bore them for decades. as a teenager, she suffered the hardships of forced labor. the constant fear of being denounced, torture, even murdered. like many young women, she was forced to marry a militiaman. she was just 18 years old. the events remain vivid in her mi

under threat from outside forces from the united states in the late 1970's and viet in a meese -- vietnamese. and that is strong defense. no remorse at all and there were atrocities committed under him and the policies and the other senior leaders which caused terrible events. >> guy, we'll leave it there. he is following the trial of the khamir rouge. they diffused five roadside bombs near the massacre, the worst case of political violence in philippine history. members are on trial accused of murdering 57 people in 2009. the pace of this trial is frustratingly slow and the victims' relatives are filing a number of civil cases. there is a claim they could have prevented the killings. >> two years ago, on a hillside in the southern phillipines, 57 people were brutally massacred, their bodies dumped in a special prepared mass grave. the victims were the relatives of a candidate for a forthcoming election and 30 journalists who were traveling with them. the candidates' election rival, is the main suspect for the murders. he is now on trial, as his father, but as the 197 people accused of being

>>> the 80th general assembly of the international police agency, interpoll, is underway in the vietnamese capital. the deputy prime minister opened the meeting which is taking place in vietnam for the first time. 200 police from 190 countries and territories are taking part in the four-day event. they're discussing ways to boost international cooperation to fight transnational crimes such as terrorism, drug smuggling, money laundering and human trafficking. interpol's president warned that criminals are likely to take advantage of technological advances. losing $400 billion yearly to cyber and international other crimes. >>> a historic fort in the indian capital reverberated with music on tuesday. the second day of the dell hi international art festival. a running group of mystics from egypt captivated the audience with their sterling performances. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> the music traces its or gin to islamic mysticism and spread throughout southeast asia during medieval times. >>> let's now take a look at the latest market figures. >>> let's now see what rachel ferguson ha

. >> my first language was vietnamese. and that i learned english. i can't follow the logic of saying a juvenile as an adult. a juvenile is a juvenile. an adult as an adult? give me a definition. if you look at the rich and the privileged, you ever see that movie "stepbrother? these guys are 40 years old, oh, my baby. and some 14-year-old, some orphan, is an adult? make clear, make the definition clear. it should be based on age. tell me what age you want me to prosecute as an adult and i don't care who your daddy is. if he is under that age, he is a juvenile. >> justice is in the gray. nothing is ever black and white. we need to have a much more effective response. does do everything we can to stop our kids from getting into the juvenile justice system in the first place. the other is a judge to do that. there were a enough partners brought to the table. they were all there, health education focusing on the best response. it has gotten federal funding and is an effective way to deal with highly -- to look at how we deal with kids in the system. at t

language isn't the only barrier -- the villagers have a general mistrust of the vietnamese authorities-and-a-half hours, min's husband arrives at the clinic. and then, the baby is born. >> the baby's doing well. he's crying and is very strong. it's a boy -- three kilos and healthy! less than 24 hours after min gave birth, her husband is back at the clinic. he's brought bamboo rods and a cloth to make a stretcher to carry his wife back home. >> i'm home alone. and it's stressful enough taking care of the rice field. and then i have to come here to see my wife and child. it's just too much. >> but min isn't doing well. she lost a lot of blood, and she needed stitches after the birth. she can hardly stand. min turns to sin thi rum. the midwife is able to convince min's husband that it's too soon for the new mother to go home. she's allowed to stay and rest for two more days. her job here is finished -- but sum will continue to struggle against old ways of thinking here, to help young mothers and their newborn children. a difficult job under very tough conditions. things look to be changin

all that remains is a vietnamese monument, reminding people who won the war. but, as dad would say, both sides lost a lot. >> he got killed. what can you tell them? war sucks. >> reporter: since he left vietnam in 1967, he has kept one memory, in particular, locked up inside himself like a prisoner in the hanoi hills, opening up that cage isn't going to be easy. old battlefield maps in hand, he takes us to a place -- >> we're within the area. >> reporter: his own children never knew existed. >> you had a home here? >> reporter: until now. >> i'll tell you when we get out. >> okay. >> i sent a squad out on this road that we're standing on. he set off a mine and it plu him up. the rest of the squad ran over to help him and it kicked another mine. and he got killed, corona and upchurch got killed. and that was -- that was the worst. >> reporter: dad believes his primary mission in the war was to save as many of his menace possible. >> they were my kids. i mean, i was 22. they were 18. >> reporter: to get them back home in one piece so that they, too, like him, co

roughly translated, it means dependable in vietnamese. it is also the name of the owners nephew, and you can often find the entire family working there to feed the neighborhood with affordably priced meals. this is located in the heart of south of market on howard street between fifth and sixth, and i think it really is a testament to the quality of the food that despite the fact it is off the beaten path, it is often packed with customers. within one month of their launch, they were getting glowing reviews from "the san francisco chronicle, and others. he spent the many -- the majority of its childhood south of market, largely when it was a little more than a large parking lot in front of the moscow center. it had been a dream to start a restaurant. he continues to hold down a job while running this restaurant. in 2010, he brought his sister and her family over from vietnam. his niece and nephew attend south of market, and you often find them in the restaurant in the afternoon. as someone who also grew up in the back of my mother's very

help out afterwards to that information is available in english, spanish, chinese, russian, and vietnamese. in addition, we also have a fun website, a website called quakequizsf.org. it's as the knowledge of what to do when an earthquake struck at home, driving, public transit, or even at the beach or at work. we have also enhanced our preparedness to throughout the city departments, using homeland security funds to conduct training, planning, and exercises, as well as bridges valuable in equipment. since 2003, san francisco and the bay area region have received approximately $322 million in home and security grants for that training and equipment. some of our other major a compliment stock -- accomplishments include renovating the emergency operations center, adding state of the art technology and equipment. we have continued to revive our disaster council, which i had, and expanding the council to include not only our emergency management partners, but the nonprofit community, labor, and business associates. purchasing major emergency response equipment, using homeland security grants, t

i was never shot or wounded myself but i worked with people who hated the vietnamese for some reason. i just felt that they were in a bad situation we were trying to help them and we they were not very successful. but that's another story. >> the c-span campaign 2012 bus visits communities across the country. to follow the buses travel skip visit www.c-span.org/bus. >> next george mason university's colin dueck talk to booktv about his most recent book, "hard line." it's about 20 minutes. >> host: colin dueck is at george mason university and also the author of this book, "hard line" the republican party and u.s. foreign policy since world war ii. professor dudek, what is hardline mean? 's phos the title because they think it sums up one of the main arguments in the book which is that the republican party since the 1950s and had a foreign-policy approach that tends to be hardline by which i mean hawkish on foreign-policy, taken seriously with the idea that there are threats out there to the united states and trying to be kind of uncompromising in the face of those threats. that it's b

cause e couny is not a gnory toheuclear norofeti tat on monday, prime minister yoshihiko noda met vietnamese prime minister, tan dung in tokyo. he confirmed that japanese companies will help rebuild to nuclear reactors in vietnam. they are scheduled to start operating in 2021. >>> what goes up must come down. and the chinese economy is showing signs of slowing. among the contributing factors is the government's tight money policy. the measures are meant to prevent overheating and curb inflation, but they've also created difficulties for small and medium-sized companies to get financing. as a stop-gap solution, many are falling back on an age-old standby, the pawn shop. nhk world's ishii has the story. >> reporter: this business in the southeastern china chinese province of guangdong makes toys, mainly for europe and the united states. the eu credit crisis is hurting the company's clients, who began falling behind on their payments since the start of this year. the company president says he's finding it hard to secure enough operating capital. >> translator: i've been running this modest comp

i worked with people who hated the vietnamese for some reason, and i can't process that information iny head. i just felt that they were -- a bad situation, we were trying to help them and not very successfully thanks to our 94th congress, but that's another story. >> the c-span campaign 2012 bus visits communities across the country. to follow the bus' travels, visit www.c-span.org/bus. >> so, my good friend, this is not just another straightforward, chronological biography of davy crockett, cradle to grave. nor does it focus just on that one slice from the big correct pie, the alamo. there is much more to crockett than the last few weeks of his life. and it's not a regurgitation of the many, many myths and total lies perpetuated by crockett over the years. this is a book for people interested in learning the truth or at least as much as can be uncovered about both the historical and the fictional crockett and how the two often became one. and, hopefully, readers will gain some new historical insights into the actual man and how he captured the imagination of his generation and later

huge contingent but it sends a message to china that is jivets is aware of what it's doing to the vietnamese and others. gwen: one thing we know for sure when you're running to be commander in chief it helps to already be commander in chief. now we turn to capitol hill, where the once secretive supercommittee created to come up with a bipartisan deficit cutting agreement is now beginning to negotiate in public on issues of taxes, spending and a looming deadline. lori knows as much about this as anyone what's real and what's not. what's happening tonight? >> there is nothing. [laughter] harry reid levitt. the place was deserted when i left. gwen: so much for deadlines. >> tomorrow's first meeting is a conference call so. these deadlines aren't even -- the sense of urgency we saw about the debt limit is utterly absent. gwen: what is this across the board cut? >> it's a year away. they have a year to figure this out and that's why nothing is happening. this -- after we dealt with the threat of a government shutdown in april and rushed to get an agreement on the budget and after we dealt with th

the hold was provided by much forces of the south vietnamese even the m-16 rifle first priority that general westmoreland would never give them, and measure merit now is not by account, its population security. it's very important and significant, i believe, that by autumn of 1966, at the latest, the two senior officers in charge of the two forces that were fighting the ground war, general harold k. johnson, chief of staff of the army, and general wallace green, the marine corps agree that westmoreland's approach was wrong and on a viable alternative, the alternative prescribed by prvn. general johnson tried hard to get this, support in the joint chiefs of staff. it didn't make much progress. it was earle we'll in charge and his commitment to firepower that didn't go anywhere. the study was brief. he rejected it out of hand. probably not too surprising. an officer of that day, later a very well-known and successful right about the war in vietnam said he was the staff officer assigned to write westmoreland's response to the study. he said we all, thought this was great, but we were no