Scholastic Update articles from April 1990

Scholastic Update archives from April 1990

Far away, but not forgotten. (Vietnam war)
April 6, 1990... FAR AWAY BUT NOT FORGOT Ten thousand miles west of the American mainland, a slender S-shaped country hugs the coast of Southeast Asia. There, as far from America as it is possible to go on earth, our country once waged war. For 14 years,...

The toll the war took. (Vietnam war)
April 6, 1990... THE TOLL THE WAR TOOK The Vietnam War was unlike any other war the United States had ever fought. There was no evil Hitler to conquer, no Pearl Harbor to rally the country for a fight. Instead the war built slowly, year after year. The U.S....

Indochina: a history of foreign domination.
April 6, 1990... INDOCHINA A History of Foreign Domination The Europeans called it "Indochina" - a peninsula on the southeast end of the Asian continent, jutting out between India and China. The culture was a unique blend of Indian and Chinese influences,...

The My Lai massacre.
April 6, 1990... THE MY LAI MASSACRE In the fall of 1969, war-weary America received a new shock from the distant battlefields of Vietnam. On November 13, newspapers across the country printed accounts of a gruesome massacre that had occurred some 19 months...

Legacy of a lost war. (Vietnam war)
April 6, 1990... LEGACY OF A LOST WAR From the moment the last U.S. helicopter left Saigon in 1975, Americans have struggled to understand and learn from the longest and most controversial war in this nation's history. Debate over its legacy rages on today....

Coming of age in the Vietnam era. (stories of two veterans & one protester)
April 6, 1990... COMING OF AGE In the Vietnam Era There's no single Vietnam experience," says one veteran. "Everyone came through with a different take on the war. Everyone who went through that period carries it around with him in a different way." ...

Torn between wars: while the civil rights struggle raged at home, black soldiers served thousands of miles away. (Vietnam war)
April 6, 1990... TORN BETWEEN WARS On April 11, 1968, an assasin's bullet struck down the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee. A few days later, half a world away, a group of black soldiers in Vietnam gathered to mourn the passing of the...

Indochina today.
April 6, 1990... INDOCHINA TODAY When the last U.S. helicopter flew out of Vietnam in 1975, the people of Indochina faced an uncertain future. The land was ravaged. The economies were shattered. By the end of the year, all three countries were under...

The boat people.
April 6, 1990... THE BOAT PEOPLE Si Nguyen is one of the lucky ones. As a young boy, he tried six times to flee his homeland of Vietnam. His father wanted him to seek a better life, free of the hardships and limitations of postwar Vietnam. But each time...

Hollywood's war. (Vietnam war)(includes article on nurses)
April 6, 1990... HOLLYWOOD'S WAR The staccato pulse of helicopter blades beats off-camera while war-weary young soldiers in flak jackets approach the bamboo huts. Suddenly there is a barrage of automatic-weapons fire. When it stops, the fresh-faced American...

Agonizing over abortion.
April 20, 1990... AGONIZING OVER ABORTION Each year, more than 6 million American women become pregnant. More than half of those pregnancies are unintended. And more than 1.6 million American women terminate their pregnancies through abortion. Are those...

Abortion in America.
April 20, 1990... ABORTION IN AMERICA HOW MANY WOMEN HAVE ABORTIONS? From the 1770s to the mid-19th century, abortion was legal and a common medical practice. Even after abortion was outlawed in the late 1800s, many women continued to have abortions -...

The most difficult decision. (stories of 3 girls who got pregnant in high school)
April 20, 1990... The Most DIFFICULT DECISION Every year, more than one million teenage girls become pregnant. Roughly half choose to have abortions. The other half give birth; of these, 4 percent give their babies up for adoption. Certainly these are...

One hundred years of debate. (abortion)
April 20, 1990... ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DEBATE Her name was Karen Lohman, but she called herself Madame Restell. For 42 years, 1836 until 1878, she was one of the most successful businesswomen in America. Her business was abortion. But she marketed herself as...

Old enough to choose? (debate over laws requiring parents' consent to minor child's abortion)
April 20, 1990... OLD ENOUGH TO CHOOSE? Late in the summer of 1988, Becky Bell learned she was pregnant. After agonizing over the options available to her, Becky decided to seek an abortion. She went to the Indianapolis office of Planned Parenthood to have...

Politics of abortion. (includes related article on Idaho & Guam)
April 20, 1990... POLITICS OF ABORTION In the middle of last fall's gubernatorial election race in Virginia, Democratic candidate L. Douglas Wilder cast about for a new political issue that could revive his faltering campaign. To the surprise of most national...

Civil warriors? (militant anti-abortion tactics)
April 20, 1990... CIVIL WARRIORS? From the outside, the Women's Service abortion clinic in the small town of Vestal, New York, looks more like a fortress than a medical facility. Concrete pillars stand in front of the clinic's glass doors to prevent cars from...

Silent minorities. (Black & Hispanic views on abortion)
April 20, 1990... SILENT MINORITIES If the Supreme Court's Webster decision leads more states to cut off government funding for abortion clinics, no group would be more affected than minorities. Minority women are disproportionately poorer than whites....

Two teens, two beliefs. (one for abortion rights, one opposed to abortion)
April 20, 1990... TWO TEENS, TWO BELIEFS Standing for Abortion Rights When Julie Nathanson was asked by her English teachers to write an essay on "something you feel strongly about," the Philadelphia teenager didn't have to search long for a topic. ...

Where America stands on abortion.
April 20, 1990... WHERE AMERICA STANDS ON ABORTION Last March, the Los Angeles Times surveyed more than 3,500 American adults on their beliefs about abortion. It was one of the largest polls ever taken on the topic. The Times poll, like virtually all...

World of difference. (abortion laws around the world)(includes article on France's abortion pill)
April 20, 1990... WORLD OF DIFFERENCE In 1979, Chinese leaders were determined to cut the nation's soaring birth rate. They feared China would face a massive food and housing shortage by the year 2000. To limit family size, the ruling Communist party...