Word: nguyen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people have the opportunity to learn English fluently in three years. Even fewer have the ability. But then Anh T. Nguyen-Huynh, a recently admitted member of the Class of 1990, is no average Harvard pre-freshman...
Since he escaped from Vietnam with his mother and younger sister in 1981, Nguyen hasn't let his new-found culture or language stop him from achieving much more than the ordinary Ivy League applicant...
...travelers with poignant reminders of the conflict. At one point, the group was escorted to the crash site of a B-52 bomber that had been shot down over Hanoi in December 1972. A U.S. insignia was still visible on the wreckage. The Newstour met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach and aging Premier Pham Van Dong. In an interview that is excerpted in the World section, an intransigent Pham seemed unwilling to compromise on any aspect of his country's aggressive policy toward Kampuchea or its backward socialist economy...
...there was Tuan Nguyen, one of the Vietnamese boat people. Tuan was rescued by a U.S. Navy crew. Today, he collects a pay check from one of America's industrial leaders...
...National Spelling Bee in Washington last month was Balu Natarajan, 13, who was born in India, now lives in a suburb of Chicago, and speaks Tamil at home. "Milieu" was the word with which he defeated 167 other competitors. Let it also be noted that Hung Vu and Jean Nguyen in May became the first Vietnamese-born Americans to graduate from West Point...