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...offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children were homeless. The Vietnamese government provided shelter only after a Japanese TV crew found her living in a field. Yet she exhibits no rancor: "I am proud of the death of my husband. It was a signal...
...Trinh Minh-ha, a Vietnamese-American filmmaker and scholar, will teach courses in the Visual and Environmental Studies and Women's Studies departments...
...Caterpillar are said to be lobbying for an end to the U.S. economic embargo. Coca-Cola and Kodak are already well known there, thanks to black-market sales. Last month the Backer Spielvogel Bates advertising agency, one of the world's largest, hosted a marketing conference in Ho Chi Minh City. Said Carl Spielvogel, chairman of the firm: "We believe there is an enormous potential there, and in Indochina generally. We intend to be pioneers in this market...
...Minh and his followers did not see themselves that way. Yes, they believed in communism, which provided them with a combination of mentality and methods well suited to prevailing in war (but not in peace): discipline and self-sacrifice, brutally enforced. They were glad to have support from Moscow and Beijing, but they were not doing Soviet or Chinese bidding. They were determined to keep Vietnam from ever again being under the control of a foreign power. They saw the Americans as successors to French and Chinese imperialists. That image of the G.I. served Ho better than America's image...
...North Vietnam. It has virtually no friends and certainly no superpower godfather. The U.S. and the international community, notably including Russia, are united against what Serbia is doing. Slobodan Milosevic's regime can be isolated politically and, if necessary, defeated militarily in a way that Ho Chi Minh's could...