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...Vietnam would be difficult. After all, my first attempt had not gone well. In October 1974, I left the country newly married to Nguyen thi Phuong Nga and for a new assignment in Rio de Janeiro. I had just completed two years in Saigon for TIME, reporting the chaotic endgame of a cruel war. Six months later, with Communist forces close to overrunning the country, I headed back to Saigon to try to bring out Nga's parents, five sisters and her brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed help getting...
...different teams interested in signing him,” Rote said. “We had a very busy hour or so. We were prepared—we had narrowed things down so it wouldn’t be more chaotic than it already...
...Cape Town disturbances culminated in a chaotic riot in the heart of the city's white sector. Bewildered lunchtime shoppers there dived for cover as police launched an assault on a group of blacks outside a courthouse in which three men were on trial for murdering a police officer. Hundreds of bystanders of several races were caught up in the fray as security officers used truncheons and whips in their efforts to clear the streets. In predawn raids the following day, police arrested more than 60 activists, including leaders of the multiracial United Democratic Front, 16 of whose members...
Nearly everybody is fed up with the world's chaotic currency markets. Politicians, business executives and economists alike are unhappy with a system that allows the value of money to change wildly and freely from day to day. The arrangement has created instability in national economies, uncertainty for companies and increased tendencies toward trade protectionism. But nobody has come up with a better idea...
...facility in Texas. "He's here 24 hours after being wounded," he says with amazement. Landstuhl is now a crucial stop-off point, where the details of each injury are compiled in a dossier that's carried to military facilities in the U.S. But sometimes the system can be chaotic, say Landstuhl's doctors. "Half the time the records at Landstuhl don't make it back to guys in the U.S. who are taking care of them," says Dorlac. Landstuhl's surgeons are often left to decide a soldier's fate themselves: whether to return him back...