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...where high volume makes it easier to turn a profit, and leave to the Postal Service the rural, low-population areas, which are gross money losers. The prospect would be a never-ending spiral of higher rates, lower volume and deteriorating service. As rates went up, more customers would flee, and rates would have to go up again...
...before the communists reached it and to drive the populace into the cities. People were also going to the cities because they feared being separated from their families. But I will say that most of the soldiers in the Saigon regime chose to surrender to the PRG, rather than flee as refugees. Half of the armed forces in the South are still in Vietnam with their families and will try to adapt to a communist way of life...
...situation was desperate because so many wanted to get out. Many people who should have gotten out didn't. I heard of someone who had worked for the CIA for ten years and he couldn't get out, but prostitutes and other people who didn't have to flee to save their lives got out because they knew the right people...
...year-old student, has just settled in lower Manhattan with six younger brothers and sisters. He is happy at the welcome he received. But he says wistfully: "Viet Nam is still Viet Nam. I still love that country, and I have to go back -if the Communists flee away...
...provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, 160 miles north of Saigon. Then followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's disastrous strategic withdrawal, which turned into a rout. Within weeks, Communist forces had advanced virtually unopposed to the very outskirts of Saigon. Forced to resign and flee the country, Thieu was replaced by his aging, ineffectual Vice President, Tran Van Huong, who in turn gave way after just six days to the only man thought to have a chance of negotiating a ceasefire: Buddhist opposition leader Duong Van ("Big") Minh. His presidential tenure proved the briefest...