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...Marines with rifle butts pounding the fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air--some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries, another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships to make room for later-arriving choppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Dressed for a day on the town in red dresses, matching lipstick and not much else, 30 to 40 revelers from Newport, R.I. took the Square by storm Sunday...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Cross-Dressed Men Parade Through Square | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

...frantic alarm at this late date smacks of Chicken Little. Let's get on with it. Let's figure out how to do cloning rationally and cautiously. In a hundred years, people, or at least our cloned descendants, will wonder what all the fuss was about. GEORGE HILLOW Newport News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...almost feel as if there has been a death in my family. I do have a life, but I want Jerry in it for half an hour a week. CELESTE PIERCE Newport Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...chemical and biological weapons over there, we'll eventually be dealing with their consequences over here. BILL MURDOCK Newport Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 15, 1997 | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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