Word: esper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vietnam appears to have gone back in time Conditions there are as bad as they were in the darkest hours of the war," said George Esper, an Associated Press reporter who witnessed the Communist take-over of South Vietnam in April, 1975. He was recently allowed to tour that country...
Nothing that "it takes the average state worker in Vietnam one month to earn what an American teen-ager makes in an hour working in a fast-food restaurant." Esper told of a young girl who approached him during his recent Vietnam visit and said. "I want to go to America. I have nothing to eat. There is nothing good here...
...major construction work in Vietnam is done by hand, electricity is rationed, and the country in several billion dollars in debt and cannot feed its 60 million people, Esper said...