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...model of lionheartedness compared with what the NVA columns entering Saigon proper found on April 30. The South Vietnamese soldiers confronting them did not just flee; they threw away everything that could identify them as soldiers and tried to melt into the general population. Bui Tin, an NVA colonel and journalist, says he spent that last morning "with one of our units taking a fortress that had been held by a South Vietnamese division. All the South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they had left all their military clothing...
...farce: while Minh waited inside the palace for someone to surrender to, NVA troops milled around on the grounds waiting for an officer of sufficiently high rank to show up and receive the surrender (according to their regulations, this could be done only by a colonel or general). Colonel Bui Tin says he was the man. He walked into Minh's office around 11:30 and found that Minh had already written out a surrender that he had read over the Saigon radio...
...hijackers to the front of the plane. Passengers heard him plead, "Don't kill . me, I have a wife and child!" The terrorists shot him in the head and dumped him outside onto a baggage cart, where he lay in agony for some time. The second victim was Bui Giang To, 48, a commercial attache at the Vietnamese embassy in Algiers. "They asked the Vietnamese man sitting in the rear to come forward," recounted one of the passengers. "Poor guy -- we saw him come back to get his leather jacket. Then we heard the shot...
...children like Kim's -- approximately 20,000 left in Vietnam by American G.I.s. Of these, about 11,000 have immigrated to the U.S. and several thousand others are on the way via camps in the Philippines. Scorned for their mixed-breed otherness and politically suspect American ancestry, these "bui doi" (dust of life) have often been abandoned by their mother, tormented into quitting school and hounded from the work force. But life is not always much better in the U.S. When the fathers can be found, only about 2% show any interest, and the new arrivals are often overwhelmed...
...effect on small people." Mackintosh concedes that some 10 minutes have been cut from the London version but rejects claims that the show has been muted politically. "Half of that," he says, "was scene-change music that was no longer needed because this stage is smaller." But the accusatory Bui Doi number has been toned down, and restaging has softened the starkness of Kim's suicide, placing her child in another room...