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Tran Khuong Dan, a construction foreman from Hanoi, was shocked when, in 1975, he finally saw his elder brother in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) after a 21-year separation prolonged by the Vietnam War. Gaunt and pale, the brother displayed symptoms that were all too familiar to Dan. The brother, like their father, was addicted to opium. "All around me," says Dan, "there were drug addicts." The habit eventually led to his father's death in 1976 and his brother's the following year...
Despite their addiction, both men had practiced traditional herbal medicine and had prescribed remedies for thousands of patients. With the knowledge passed down from his father, Dan built himself a thriving practice in Ho Chi Minh City, eventually accumulating some $75,000. But one question continued to nag him about his brother's and father's deaths: "Why didn't they find a medicine to cure themselves...
...when the Air Force CH-53 helicopter dropped off Pham Ninh Ngoc and 10 other South Vietnamese at a clearing in North Vietnam, just across the Laotian border. The team, code named Hadley, was supposed to gather intelligence on supply convoys traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but within a day North Vietnamese soldiers began rounding up the commandos. An iron shackle was secured to Pham with a stake driven through the flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with his jaw held shut...
...face, and my mind raced back a quarter-century to the battlefields of Vietnam. As a disabled veteran, I still see the faces of my dead friends. I still feel the pain of my wounds. I suffer as tourists visit Ho Chi Minh City. Will the madness ever end? I am confident that I speak for millions when I answer the question "Is Bosnia worth dying for?" with a defiant no! DENNIS DIFOLCO Staten Island, New York...
...Vietnam bursting with commerce, construction, luxury hotels and growth in every sector. "We owe our prosperity to the new policies of the government," said a villager in Dinh Bang, 12 miles from Hanoi, and for once the party line is true. Ten years ago, the heirs of Ho Chi Minh concluded that their country was stagnating and decided to build an internal market while inviting foreign investment. The country still has a one-party state and a sluggish bureaucracy, but overall the economy is booming, tapping the vitality of a population in which 60% are 25 or younger. The friendly...