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Hoang Quoc Bao, 28, was the leader of an 82-mm mortar squad in the North Vietnamese army that marched with Hanoi's victorious troops from Kontum all the way to Saigon. Last year Vietnamese security police burst into his home in the middle of the night, seized him and his two brothers and beat them, warning that they had to leave Viet Nam or be killed. Now he is a refugee, working sugar-cane fields in China and owning nothing but the clothes he wears...
Perhaps it is also important not to forget that Pasqualini is mostly Chinese, with a Chinese name, Bao Ruo-want and oriental feature. From a historical point of view, his country had stood up after being humiliated by the Western powers and Japan. The effort was a collective one, and equality between peasant, inmate, intellectual and warder was enforced, even if it was a wretched plight to share. As he says, "We didn't have any illusions about flying the coop." Things were pretty much the same outside the walls...
...refugee, a 25-year-old paratrooper, managed to reach Saigon after a ten-day flight by car, foot and boat from Bao Lac, capital of Lam Dong province, after it fell to the Communists. He told his story to TIME...
...almost exactly 25 years ago, in May 1950, that TIME ran its first cover story on the fighting in Viet Nam. The face on the magazine's cover then was that of the country's embattled Emperor Bao Dai; the issue was whether the U.S. should heed appeals for American assistance in the French struggle against Viet Minh insurgents. In the quarter-century since then, events have compelled cover treatment of the seemingly endless Indochina conflict no fewer than 64 times. Whether or not some sort of final resolution of war is at last at hand, the anonymous...
...district capitals, three in the highland region, two in Military Region I and one in Military Region III, before zeroing in on their primary target: Ban Me Thuot, a sleepy Montagnard city of 80,000 and the capital of Darlac province, where in a quieter era the Emperor Bao Dai used to hunt for tiger...