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...Long Delay United Airlines launched the U.S.'s first scheduled flight to Vietnam since 1975. The service, from San Francisco to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) grew out of a bilateral aviation pact agreed upon last year...
...LANDED. UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 869 FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO HO CHI MINH CITY, on Friday night, the first U.S. airline to fly to Vietnam since the Communist takeover in 1975. The flight will run daily until at least Tet, the Vietnamese new year in February, for which up to 200,000 overseas Vietnamese return home...
...women and female children sported the austere, Khmer Rouge bobbed haircuts. One of the men still wore revolution-style footwear-better known as "Ho Chi Minh sandals"-handmade from rubber car tires. When Lao authorities caught the group-which had now grown to 34 men, women, children and infants-crossing the border from Cambodia, they were clad in clothes fashioned from tree bark...
...need to prime the credit card for a decent three-course lunch in Ho Chi Minh City: the streets of Vietnam's southern capital are lined with choice selections from the country's larder, available for marvelously small sums. Take a stroll from Ben Thanh market, along Le Thanh Ton street, and stop off at a street-side phó bo stall for your appetizer. Vietnam's signature dish of beef noodles-flavored with star anise, cilantro and fish sauce-is a soupy snip at $0.30 per bowl...
...victims of the war, few have had such a pitiful history as the Hmong. Recruited, armed and trained by the CIA to conduct a "secret war" in officially neutral Laos, the Hmong fought to contain Vietnamese troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos and to rescue downed American flyers involved in a covert bombing campaign. The Hmong campaign was not publicly acknowledged by the U.S. until 1994, when former CIA Director William Colby told Congress of the Hmong's "heroism and sacrifice." Shortly after the Pathet Lao regime took power in 1975-two years after...