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...center for the area's 400 retired, sometimes ailing, senior citizens. But the place was hard for many to get to, and its facilities were limited. Harbor Springs High School, though, had room, as well as a varied curriculum. So earlier this year Community Schools Director Robert Doan made a proposition: Why not bring older people to the school? As he puts it: "Why should a community build an expensive, isolated senior citizens' center when it is possible to use a multimillion-dollar complex staffed by professionals...
Without explanation, Hanoi released Hieu and fellow prisoner Doan Van Toai from prison in late 1977. Since then, the two have traveled through Europe, Canada, and most recently, the United States, describing the horrors of Vietnamese prison life and urging Western nations to condemn the Vietnamese government for human rights violations...
...Forest City, Iowa, Johnny and Bonnie Nelson feel they have the right to resist the claim of Doan Thi Hoang Ann, who lives in Great Falls, Mont.; she insists she is the mother of the fouryear-old Vietnamese child they call Ben. Says Mrs. Nelson: "At first I was trying to look at it as if I were in her shoes. But we couldn't just give him away to someone claiming to be his mother without any proof." When both sides went into court over Ben, Mrs. Nelson decided, "If he reacted to her in a loving...
...managed to accompany Viet Cong forces into Hué, one-fifth of the city's population of nearly 200,000 had fled before the Communists seized the old imperial capital. Dozens of planes and helicopters had been abandoned at Hué's airport. Aging Queen Mother Doan Huy, 86, was treated with respect by the arriving soldiers, the reporter said, but part of her palace was converted into a hospital. Soup kitchens were set up in public squares and even bicycles were commandeered to bring in food...
...sports page is Cartmell's latest exam book from Be 38. A "D" graces the cover. Most--undergraduates take five courses for their first three years and only four in their senior year. Do to extenuating circumstances, Cartmell has to take six courses his last year. "There was a doan here a couple of years ago," said one of Cartmell's friends, "who didn't see eye-to-eye with Cartmell's academic program. It was a race to see who would leave first, the doan or Cartmell. Fortunately for Cartmell, the doan retired...