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...hour." The Vietnamese students pleaded that they had an urgent appointment, Long said, while the truck driver insisted on a complete exchange of papers and calling a policeman. Half an hour later, they finally arrived at the embassy. It was 10:15. They were greeted by Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Second Secretary to the embassy. Bich informed them that the AP reporter had already left. (The reporter explained in an interview later that he had to get his car fixed, and decided at 10:10 not to wait any longer.) He then conducted them to the ambassador, Bui Diem...
...Bich, reached this week at his embassy, did not recollect the visit in the same way as Long. He described the visit as a "reasonably cordial" one, adding "Even if policy-wise we might disagree, that does not sour our relationship." Bich emphatically denied that any threats had been made against the students...
...that it has. At Newport last week, there were no fewer than three potential challengers waiting at the dock: another Aussie syndicate, a British group, and a French outfit led by Baron Marcel Bich, a millionaire ballpoint-pen manufacturer. Bich already owns one 12-meter yacht, has shares in two others, including Intrepid's trial horse, Constellation, has a fourth on the drawing boards, and is reportedly dickering to buy Intrepid herself. If the baron was discouraged by the odds, he certainly did not show it. "We are ready to issue a challenge for 1970," he said, "as soon...
...model in business. Now it is the United States." Miss Nguyen Thi Dong Thanh, 31, a teacher turned manager of the Merry Realm Juice Milk Co., is anxious to learn enough to "catch up with my other friends who are in business." A younger businesswoman, Miss Truong Thi Bich Tuy, 25, runs Saigon's Socipha Drug Company, which is owned by her father. Why is she at Harvard? "Too many times, I must ask help from my brothers-in-law," she sighs. "After learning here, I will be able to run the company myself...
What is special about these business leaders is that they are all women. One of them, Mrs. Tran Thai Muor, is vice president of the Saigon Chamber of Commerce. Another, Miss Bich Tuy Truong Thi, is general manager of Socipha, a drug manufacturing house. Others are involved in retail selling, manufacturing, pharmacetuicals, chemicals and textiles, import-export business...