Word: hoa
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...summer of 1959, and the number of American military advisers to the South Vietnamese government was only a few hundred. In the town of Bien Hoa, 20 miles north of Saigon, six U.S. soldiers settled in to watch a movie...
Indisputably, there have been cases where supervisors abused workers, including a well-known incident at Pou Chen's Bien Hoa plant in Vietnam when several women fainted while being forced to run laps around the perimeter of three warehouses as a punishment. Workers there have no confidence in the grievance system, and some still fear reprisal from bosses. "The manager wants us to meet the regulated number," says a 27-year-old woman. "When we don't and there's a gap, they force us to work extra to meet the quota." Workers have also complained that they were paid...
...Bill Saporito. With reporting by Tim Larimer/Bien Hoa and Terry McCarthy/Dongguan
That set the stage for the final, and almost comically unheroic, scene of the war. NVA Major Nguyen Van Hoa, commanding tank No. 843, a Soviet-made T-54, with six other tanks following, had entered Saigon before dawn. His little column ran into a brief fire fight at the Thi Nghe bridge, knocking out two ARVN M41 tanks. Rolling into almost deserted streets, the column kept going toward its target, the Presidential Palace. But where was it? Says Major Hoa: "The only directions we had were to go through seven intersections and we would find the palace." His column...
...decisions about its economy are still made in the North. The central government takes 80% of the city's annual tax revenues. Officials from Hanoi are assigned the top jobs at local state-owned factories and trading firms. Even the bulk of the city's electricity comes from the Hoa Binh Dam, 930 miles to the north. "The government can satisfy some demands, not all," says Peoples Council president Pham Tran Truc. "For example, we are not satisfied with the electricity supply . " At which point the lights in his office flicker out. A coincidence, to be sure. But Truc offers...