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...crackling with electricity this Tuesday in Saigon (officially Ho Chi Minh City, but the locals have reverted to the old name). Monsoon clouds are moving in from the west. People are hurrying along sidewalks, newspaper vendors are getting out plastic sheeting, cyclo drivers are making for shelter...
...women's restrooms to the first and fourth floor, and install combination locks on the doors. 28 - The United States Embassy orders the final evacuation of all 900 Americans from South Vietnam after attacks on Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Air Base and after South Vietnam President Duong Van Minh demands that all Americans leave the country. This ends 30 years of American involvement in the Indochina...
DIED. PHAM VAN DONG, 94, Vietnam's tough and erudite Prime Minister for three decades during the war against the U.S. and the country's subsequent reunification; in Hanoi. A founder of the Viet Minh and an architect of the communist revolution that drove out the French colonials in 1954, he became communist chief Ho Chi Minh's steadfast administrative workhorse...
...Meijer's entrepreneurial son Hank who unwittingly sparked the contention when he went to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon) in October 1994, in search of promising new business ventures that might result from the Clinton Administration's impending normalization of relations with Vietnam. While driving down Le Duan Boulevard one afternoon, Hank Meijer asked his driver to stop at the former U.S. embassy, atop which the tragic last moments of America's involvement in Vietnam had been played out. Abandoned since and allowed to run down into a weed-choked eyesore where only chickens...
...memory recedes at generational warp speed. Those who remember, remember. But a senior in college now was born three or four years after Saigon fell and changed its name to Ho Chi Minh City. I see the black POW-MIA flag still flying (though frayed) above a post office or police barracks in Massachusetts. No one raised an outcry of political correctness when John McCain referred some weeks ago to his North Vietnamese jailers as "gooks" - the feeling being, I guess, that his years at the Hanoi Hilton earned him a pass...