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...manage to resume careers with relative ease, though often in circumstances that they could never have imagined in their previous lives. Dr. Diem Duc Nguyen, 39, a South Vietnamese army surgeon who left Saigon on a refugee ship in 1975, tried working for a private ambulance service rescue squad in Florida but did not take to it. Then he learned of a medical retraining program in Nebraska and secured an interest-free loan to enter it in return for pledging to practice in rural Bridgeport (pop. 1,668) whose only two physicians were nearing retirement. Says Banker Eldon Evers...
...vice chairman of Viet Nam's National Assembly, who served for more than three decades as a spokesman for his country in international forums, notably as chief delegate to the 1968-73 Paris peace talks with the U.S. and South Viet Nam and then as chief deputy to Le Duc Tho in the secret sessions that led to the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina; after a heart attack; in Hanoi. To former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who faced him across the Paris table, Thuy was "tiny, with a ) Buddha face and a sharp mind, perpetually smiling even when saying...
...flare-up was in response to a monologue by Le Duc Tho, 73, who sat opposite Kissinger during the Paris peace talks in the early 1970s and still serves in Viet Nam's Politburo. Smiling like a kindly uncle but persistently ducking the questions of Nightline's Ted Koppel, Tho thanked "the American people for their support and contribution to our present victory." That smug expression of gratitude, delivered about a war that holds such painful memories for Americans, further galled Kissinger. On ABC's Good Morning America next day, he reiterated his complaint about television's handling...
...Americans were mostly gone. They left after the Potemkin peace set up by the Paris accords of two years earlier, for which Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. The conflict had been "Vietnamized." And with the Americans out, the war of the lethal vanishings, the surreptitious strikes, was past...
...seems to be that survival in next year's elections depends, for the most part, on reclaiming the center. Perhaps their best hope in that effort lies with Premier Laurent Fabius. Over the course of his eight months in office, Fabius, 38, France's youngest head of government since Duc Decazes in 1819, has been working to give Mitterrand's government a snappy new image. He has, in fact, become the very embodiment of the government's passage from socialist idealism to managerial pragmatism. During his regularly televised fireside chats, he confidently predicts economic improvement with the help of four...