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There was Moc Loi, who escaped from Vietnam with his wife and children and ultimately found a home in Massachusetts. Moc learned English at a Newton public school and gained a job at Teradyne three years...
After checking into the Cuban-built Thang Loi (Victory) Hotel, the Americans were driven to a French colonial vil la for talks with their Vietnamese hosts. "Let me introduce Lieut. Colonel John Per," Armitage said, turning to a member of his delegation. "He was a guest of yours before for six years, but he stayed in a different hotel from the Thang Loi." Per was shot down over Thai Nguyen, 40 miles north of Hanoi...
Food was no problem. Marketplaces were filled with green vegetables and raw meat, peanuts were piled high on the pavement on Le Loi, the busiest boulevard in Saigon, and exotic aromas bubbled up from the hot food stalls in front of Saigon's cathedral. Young women crowded the lobby of the Mini Rex Theater every matinee to see Brigitte Bardot in Boulevard du Rhum. Roving photographers armed with Polaroid cameras still tried to hustle a few piasters out of foreign correspondents they mistook for tourists. The piaster rate, perhaps the best war barometer in town, shot up from...
...some 60 neo-Fascist suspects were picked up and grilled. Trying desperately to exonerate the party from blame, M.S.I, leaders offered an $8,500 reward for the capture of the bomb throwers. Eventually, the party itself fingered the culprits: an unemployed la borer named Maurizio Murelli, 19, and Vittorio Loi, 22, the son of former Junior Welterweight Boxing Champion Duilio Loi. However, young Loi later told police that an M.S.I, bodyguard had assigned them to disrupt the rally...
...sternly to the protest, in some cases clubbing down the students, but the next day, not entirely by coincidence, Debré let it be known that he would not be a member of President Georges Pompidou's new Cabinet. The same day, it was announced that the controversial Loi Debré would be reconsidered...