Word: indochina
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...Nhut airport last Tuesday shortly before Communist advance units entered downtown "Ho Chi Minh city." Rowan's and Stewart's accounts of the final American evacuation, cabled from the U.S.S. Blue Ridge in the South China Sea, appear in this week's Indochina cover section...
Already safely out of Indochina were the other men who had covered the disintegration of Cambodia and South Viet Nam for TIME: Peter Range, William McWhirter, David Aikman and former Phnom-Penh Stringer Steven Heder. All looked back on two months of dangerous work during which they often dodged rocket-borne shrapnel while moving among insurgent armies and panicked refugees; they took sad professional satisfaction in being able to report the end of the tragic story. News of the evacuation also stirred memories among the correspondents who have reported Indochina's wars for TIME since our Saigon bureau opened...
...refugees had been deposited in diverse havens (see following story). These included a tent city at U.S.-controlled Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; a tin city of corrugated-roof barracks in Guam, once used by the crews of the B-52 bombers that devastated much of Indochina before Congress grounded them in August 1973; barracks at huge Travis Air Force Base in Northern California; an Evangelical church in the sere hills of Los Gatos, 50 miles south of San Francisco; a beer hall in Mount Angel, Ore., where Benedictine sisters from a nearby priory were attending the confused...
...most of the war, Western and South Vietnamese analysts have known little more about the elusive field commander of the Viet Cong than that he called himself Tran Nam Trung. Actually, Nam Trung is a nom de guerre meaning "south central" (after the portion of Indochina more commonly known as South Viet Nam) and has probably been used at various times by at least three commanders, a fact that has caused endless confusion. Even after Tran Van Tra publicly emerged in 1973 as the Communists' top general in the South, many experts were still not sure that...
Some residents of Mariner's Cove see the newcomer as an embodiment of the U.S.'s distasteful Indochina policies and would rather he settled elsewhere. Others fear that he may draw crowds of tourists and "disruptive curiosity seekers." According to his real estate agent, the exiled President chose the small community merely because he wants his children to "mix with the kids and become regular Americans." He seems to mean it. At week's end Lon Nol borrowed a neighbor's ladder and put new netting on the driveway basketball hoop that comes with the house...