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...work for their son. Swifts, part of Dad's brown-water navy, were fast and well armed for their size, but in South Viet Nam's network of narrow waterways, these craft were extremely vulnerable to ambushes. Hidden in the dense vegetation that grew along the banks, the Viet Cong killed and wounded sailors with unnerving regularity. To serve a year on a river patrol boat meant a 70%-to-75% chance of becoming a casualty...
...blocking the highway like elderly sheep and not even giving drivers the chance to speed and get caught fairly, driving cars which don't let on that they have police inside, and hiding like a Viet Cong inside an unmarked truck violate all the rules of the speeding game. Sleazy tactics like those are--pardon the pun--cop-outs...
...Kampuchea have made a leap so broad that they do not understand gas stoves, toilets or refrigeration. But only women immigrants have been taught to be, or at least , to appear to be, passive, obedient and submissive. A Vietnamese woman, for example, finds that the Confucian ideals of cong, dung, ngon and hanh -- versatile homemaker, subtle beauty, soft voice, gentle behavior -- do not always work as survival skills in the U.S. Said one such woman to her counselor in California: "It is harder to learn to be aggressive than I thought...
...slim, smiling Quoc Cong Tran, 16, who arrived at a San Francisco high school from Viet Nam six months ago, language instruction means a minimum of short-term help in classroom Vietnamese, while he loads up on English in courses called English as a second language. "My future, I choose American," says Quoc...
That year, four months after the Tet Offensive shocked the nation into realizing what formidable foes the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army were, Harvard and Radcliffe students at their separate graduation exercises protested U.S. involvement...