Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine months since North Viet Nam's Russian-built T-54 tanks rumbled through the gates of former President Nguyen Van Thieu's palace...
...Class Day Committee invites Senator Robert Byrd to speak at Commencement after the seniors' first two choices, Ambassador George Bush and Nguyen Van Thieu, both decline. "Let me put it this way," says Class Day chairman Ron Wade, "The Senator is no prize, but a Byrd in hand is worth Thieu and Bush...
...move up the economic ladder. They are a very intelligent, resilient, resourceful people." Many now work as filling-station attendants, messengers or office clerks. Tran Dinh Chi was once principal of a Saigon high school; now he earns $2.40 an hour as a part-time maintenance man in Michigan. Nguyen An Minh, formerly vice president of a commercial bank, is unemployed in New Orleans largely because he speaks no English. An ex-general is serving as a headwaiter at a Pennsylvania restaurant. Some jobs offered to refugees have fallen through; when a gardening firm in Pomona, Calif., went bankrupt last...
...Remember Nguyen Cao Ky? He of the purple ascot and the praises for Adolf Hitler? The former South Vietnamese Premier, who fled to the U.S. last May, is working the college lecture circuit these days. His standard lecture, delivered last week at the University of Florida, includes a proposal that the U.S. send troops to Viet Nam to protect refugees who want to return home. The students greeted Ky's talk with boos, jeers and a sign that said: OUT OF VIET NAM FOREVER. When it came to question time, the first questioner asked about Ky's rumored...
...flown on a bombing run in Viet Nam and been wounded by gunfire in Mexico. She boldly interrogated Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu about the corruption of his regime, and she lured Secretary of State Henry Kissinger into describing himself as a lone gunslinger on a horse. She is Oriana Fallaci, 45, world-roving and world-renowned practitioner of the clawing interview. A small and frenetic figure in slacks and a faded maroon corduroy jacket, she swept into her Rome office from an Athens flight one recent morning, dumped her suitcases on the floor, answered a number of telephone calls...