ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
The U.S. can marshal aircraft carriers, a fleet of jets and half a million men for the war in Viet Nam, but when it comes to scholarship in Vietnamese language and culture, the nation is woefully unprepared. As Harvard Sinologist John K. Fairbank put it at a conference of Orientalists at the
University of Michigan last week: "We have been caught not only with our pants down, but with our pants offthere isn't even a national committee on Viet Nam studies."
Only three universitiesCornell, Yale and Hawaiihave strong enough studies on Southeast...
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