Word: biches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blasted out before helicopters could fly in with the search team. For three weeks, the remains were arranged on long shelves at a nearby school, and hundreds of Hue citizens came to identify their missing relatives. "They had no reason to kill these people," said Mrs. Le Thi Bich Phe, who lost her husband...
...weakening of the persistent European notion that U.S. antitrust and securities laws are somehow stacked against foreign operations (they are not). But the main drawing card is that the U.S. market is still the world's biggest and most profitable. Describing his own experience last June, Marcel Bich, whose Bic pen company bought out Waterman Pen Co. in 1959, could hardly contain himself. "The States, it is tough," he declared. "But when it works, it pays!" Bich has long since recouped his $10 million investment in Waterman, last year cleared $6.4 million...
...Bich spoke at a reading of Vietnamese poetry sponsored by the Advocate and the Asia Society, a New York-based organization that works within the United States to teach the humanities and politics of Asia...
...Most early poetry was filled with confidence and glorification," Bich said. "It was in the 16th century that we began lamenting the suffering of war. In recent years, the poetry of war has taken on great and tragic dimensions--the physical effect is under-played," he added...
Quoting from "Who am I?", a poem of the 1960's by Tru Vu, Bich said, "I am neither Communist or Nationalist--I am a Vietnamese...isn't that enough...