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...bags and organize elections. In Indochina few cease- fires have lasted long enough for the guns to cool. The U.N. plan calls for the four armies to be corralled into "cantonment areas," where their weapons would be stored under "U.N. supervision." Experience with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War and with the Khmer Rouge over the past 20 years suggests that this is a pipe dream. There are reports that the Khmer Rouge is already developing jungle caches of weapons and personnel in anticipation of a possible cease-fire...
...Saigon we were supposed to do a show at the Brinks Hotel, and we were running late. When we got within five minutes of the hotel, there was some kind of commotion. They ((the Viet Cong)) had bombed it. Later a general sent me a communique found in a rubber plantation they had captured. It said, "The bombing of the Brinks Hotel missed the Bob Hope show by ten minutes due to a faulty timing device." Were we the target? Sure. My God, I have witnessed so much...
...past year the city has encouraged the opening of "mini-hotels" for Vietnamese visitors. The managers are often enterprising city employees eager to make more money. Says Nguyen Cong Ai, vice chairman of the local People's Committee: "Our private economy is much stronger now. We are learning the lessons of the market. We want to cooperate with foreign cities, to be an open door for Vietnam." Metropolitan Saigon has a population of 3.9 million. The port itself and textile and garment manufacturing are the city's biggest industries...
...past, raucous demonstrations have sometimes polarized the nation, shifting attention from the issues to the rowdy behavior and unpopular politics -- Stalinists for Solidarity with the Viet Cong! -- of protesters. Since support for environmental protection spans the political spectrum, polarization should not plague Earth Day unless fringe groups seize the occasion to sabotage a steel mill or stage other "ecotage" attacks on perceived corporate villains. Earth Day's organizers more likely face the opposite problem: the possibility that the hype and the numbing array of events will cause people to throw up their hands and stay home...
...around the world and lodged in the conscience. Photography is the very dream of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which holds that the act of observing a physical event inevitably changes it. War is merciless, bloody, and by definition it occurs outside the orbit of due process. Loan's Viet Cong did not have a trial. He did have a photographer. The photographer's picture took on a life of its own and changed history...