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...learned French and English, read voraciously in three languages and wrote passionate denunciations of communism. He joined the South Vietnamese army, then worked for the U.S. embassy in Saigon. In the last, worst years of the Vietnam War, he wrote a column for the newspaper Hoa Binh...
...than it was even five years ago, though she feels that living standards are still low. The long war is a receding memory. "In the past I was angry, but not now," she says. "It's over. I gave up my anger." A few doors away sits Ngo Thanh Binh, 26. A university graduate with a degree in economics, Binh has been unable to find a job. To make ends meet, he works in his parents' shop selling jeans. "It's been very difficult for me to get a job as an economist," he says. "I need to know more...
...Robert Capa was killed by a land mine at Thai Binh, as one Indochina war ended and another began. News photography in the U.S. focused instead on the 1958 Marine landing in Lebanon, Ike's departure, the enthralling arrival of the Kennedys. For the first time, the White House was deemed worthy of full-time photo coverage. In 1963, as historical events darkened, photojournalism regained some of its tragic power. The A.P.'S Malcolm Browne methodically photographed a Buddhist monk burning himself to death in a Saigon protest. A Dallas Times-Herald photographer caught the instant of Lee Harvey Oswald...
...relatively dry period from November to May -- can pose a few logistical problems. Travelers from the Soviet Union and East bloc countries, seeking a winter refuge, come in droves. As current allies, they have the clout to book the downtown hotels, while Americans are often relegated to the Tan Binh, a tedious, hour-long pedicab ride from downtown's central market. Among the scant diversions of the place: tasty, small loaves of French bread, pint bottles of dreadful Vietnamese vodka and a nearby tennis club. For a pack of American cigarettes, the local pro will cheerfully run you into...
Since then, the valley, eleven miles long and four miles wide, has been bulldozed into a flat green sea of paddy and sugar-cane fields dotted with hamlets. The valley has seen its population triple in three decades to nearly 100,000, of whom 30,000 came from Thai Binh province, southeast of Hanoi...