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...When am I going home?" asked twelve-year-old Ya Hinh, just eight weeks after arriving in the suburban New York home of Janet and Louis Marchese. Hinh, called Keith by the Marcheses, was one of some 2,000 Vietnamese children airlifted to the U.S. in Operation Babylift as Saigon fell to the Communists in the spring of 1975. He had learned to say "mother," "father" and a few other English words quite quickly. But Mrs. Marchese, wife of a New York City policeman, was torn between her desire to adopt the boy officially and her awareness that his real...
...these days. Puzzled Vietnamese peasants saw their first broadcasts on 2,500 sets donated by the U.S. and set up outdoors on stilts in hamlets and towns in and around Saigon. Now there are upwards of 350,000 sets, or one for every 50 Vietnamese. THVN-for Truyen Hinh (Transmission of Pictures) Viet Nam-has five stations. Broadcasting about six hours a day, mostly in the evening, they can reach 80% of South Viet Nam's 17 million people...
...last week defused the issue still further by appointing six new Cabinet ministers-southerners all-to replace the four dissidents who had departed. Saigon Dentist Nguyen Van Tho became Minister of Education, Nguyen Xuan Phong took the portfolio for Social Welfare, and Colonel Ho Van Di Hinh became Youth Minister. Deputy Premier Nguyen Luu Vien added the new Culture Ministry to his duty roster. Onetime Economics Minister Truong Thai Ton moved over to the Ministry of Industry, and Nguyen Kien Thien An became Minister of Commerce...
...teeth than their countrymen back home. Part of what a Catholic priest has described as "an unprecedented brain drain from an underdeveloped country" is an estimated 1,200 lawyers, 600 doctors (more than in all Viet Nam) and 300 engineers. High-ranking exiles include Three-Star General Nguyen Van Hinh, the army chief of staff who plotted against Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in 1954. Today he is a deputy commander of the French air force. Prince Buu Hoi heads Paris' National Cancer Institute...
...keep her quiet during a period of attempted conciliation. "It was just like the Middle Ages," she says, "but that's where I learned English." When she returned to Saigon three months later, she was still spoiling for a fight. Finally, Diem smashed the Binh Xuyen, forced General Hinh into exile, and sent his troops into the countryside to crush the dissident sects...