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Near Dong Dang, a Vietnamese hamlet less than a mile from the Chinese border, scores of small, one-person artillery shelters have been dug into the lush hillsides. On one rise, a Soviet-made anti-aircraft missile points at the mountains beyond the frontier. The border area is dotted with gun emplacements and camouflaged trucks, and swarms with bare-chested Vietnamese troops. In the middle of a nearby road, two 6-ft.-deep craters mark the points where Chinese artillery shells exploded earlier this month...
...economy's boisterous recovery has put shoppers in the mood to buy the best and the brightest, from $600 home computers to $300 cashmere bathrobes. At Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, customers have already taken home 2,300 pairs of mink earmuffs at $85 each. According to Lien Dang, a Neiman-Marcus sales clerk in Houston, consumers want "something wild, something different, something out of this world...
RECOVERING. Dang Tuyet Mai, 41, beautiful wife of Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier of South Viet Nam who escaped the Communist takeover of his country in 1975 and is now a liquor store owner in Westminster, Calif.; from a suicide attempt (she took an overdose of Valium); in Manila, while a guest of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, a friend since the 1960s...
...many Asians, stress is the price of survival. Nearly half the 160 Vietnamese students at Brighton High School in Boston left their families in Viet Nam or in refugee camps. These immigrants must learn English at school in bilingual programs. In a Brighton chemistry class, Teacher Dang Pham lectures about the dac, the long and the khi before discussing the concepts of solid, liquid and gas in English. When test time comes, most students choose to take the test in English. Says Pham: "They have to learn to adjust to a new system in a new society so they...
...story on Steven Jobs is a rebuke to the "good ole boys" who categorize all youth with long hair and cut-offs as "dang hippies" who are no good to society...