Websites
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and does not necessarily endorse the material on them.
Operation Babylift – Vietnam Adoption Airlift 1975
www.adoptvietnam.org/adoption/babylift-index.htm
How the Americans airlifted children out of Vietnam and placed them up
for adoption in the US. Links to children’s own experiences.
Vietnam Babylift
www.vietnambabylift.org
Positive views on the US action.
Search for the Past – a Vietnamese-American Adoptee visits Vietnam
www.comeunity.com/apv/babylift-joshua.html
One man’s emotional record of going back to the country of his birth.
Adopted Vietnamese International
www.darlo.tv/indigo/VVietnam2.html
Comprehensive and helpful site that provides support, services and friendship
to individuals who are adopted from Vietnam. Community participation strongly
encouraged with individual stories and useful information.
Channel 4's guide to genealogy
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/L/lostgeneration/family/index.html
Packed with advice on how to trace an ancestor who was an immigrant, searching for family abroad, resources and much more.
ChildLine
www.childline.org.uk
ChildLine is the UK's free, 24-hour helpline for children and young people
in trouble or danger. Call ChildLine free on 0800 1111. Fact sheets and
publications can be downloaded from the website.
The Who Cares Trust
www.thewhocarestrust.org.uk
Promotes the interests of children and young people in public care and
works with all those interested in their well-being. A quarterly magazine
is produced for and by children and young people in public care.
Vietnam War Internet Project
www.vwip.orgl
History, specialist research, links and more reading on the war and its
implications.
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/
Vietnam War web ring listing books, links, personal accounts and formal
history.
Fugitive Biggs sent to jail
www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/05/07/britain.biggs/
CNN site with history behind The Sun’s repatriation of Biggs
and links to other sites and stories.
The Art of the Prank
http://pranks.com
Blog with 'insights, information, news and discussions about pranks, hoaxes, culture jamming and reality hacking around the world – past, present and future, mainstream and counter culture'. Includes information on publicity stunts.
Books
Refugees and Asylum Seekers by Craig Donnellan (Independence
Educational Publishers, 1999) £6.45
Looks at what is being done by governments, relief agencies and international
bodies to help refugees.
Are Those Kids Yours?: American families with children adopted from
other countries by Cherie Register (Free Press, 1990) US Edition only,
available through online book shops.
The mother of two Korean-born daughters discusses intercultural and interracial
adoption.
Adopted Children Speaking by Caroline Thomas et al (British Agencies
for Adoption & Fostering, 1999) £9.95
A study of children's and young people's views and experiences of the
adoption process and the support they received during that process.
Voices from Another Place: A collection of works from a generation
born in Korea and adopted to other countries by Susan Soon-Keum Cox
(Yeong & Yeong Book Company, 1999) US Edition only, available
through online book shops.
Those most starkly affected by such removal tell it in their own words.
Requiem by Horst Faas and Tim Page (Jonathan Cape, 1997) £40
Photographic record of the Vietnam War, a tribute to 134 photographers
who died.
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the
Great War, 1914-1919 by J Lee Thompson (Kent State University Press,
2000) £31.50
How Northcliffe wielded his power and influence.
How You Can Manipulate the Media: Guerrilla methods to get your story
covered by TV, radio, and newspapers by David Alexander (Paladin,
1993) US Edition only, available through online book shops.
Media insider reveals how to 'spin'.
Ethical Issues in Journalism and Media by Andrew Belsey and Ruth
Chadwick (Routledge, 1992) £16.99
If the proper role of journalism is seen as providing information, then
ethical questions focus on one issue: maintaining the 'quality' of the
information.
Business the Rupert Murdoch Way by Stuart Crainer (Capstone Publishing
Limited, 1998) £8.99
What makes Murdoch successful? Secrets, deals and schemes.
Odd Man Out by Ronnie Biggs (Pan Books, 1994) £5.99
Overview of his life since the Great Train Robbery in August 1963, flight
to South America, attempted kidnapping, and relationship with the media.
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