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...TIME photographer Greg Davis and I were in Hanoi for our first meeting with Ho Xuan Dich, director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel. Dich's deputy, Ngo Hoang, had participated in the February 1990 joint U.S.-Vietnamese visit -- known in MIA jargon as an iteration -- to the crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others...
...much better than it was even five years ago, though she feels that living standards are still low. The long war is a receding memory. "In the past I was angry, but not now," she says. "It's over. I gave up my anger." A few doors away sits Ngo Thanh Binh, 26. A university graduate with a degree in economics, Binh has been unable to find a job. To make ends meet, he works in his parents' shop selling jeans. "It's been very difficult for me to get a job as an economist," he says. "I need...
...varieties of orchid are said to grow in the province, and mimosa vines with delicate, mauve flowers climb innumerable trellises. At the 52-room Dalat Palace Hotel, completed in 1923, Headwaiter Hoang Van Tu serves meals, as he has since 1942 to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and even the Emperor, Bao Dai himself. There is nothing imperial about the hostelry today, but the mosquito netting hanging from the massive teak bed is skillfully patched and blessedly intact. A mile away horses graze near a sand trap on the golf course Americans designed and built...
Carlin took a similar path, recording victories over Lucy Dinneen (2-0), Tom Ngo (3-0), and Harvard squash team members Paul Gardi (3-0), Will Iselin (3-0) and Joe Dowling...
...Nixon directive to tar John F. Kennedy with the assassination of former Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem...