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...addition, to complement the extraordinary plentitude and quality of footage, the producers conducted over 300 interviews, 100 in Vietnam. Interviewees include top brass from the period in North and South Vietnam and America, and only former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese ex-President Nguyen Van Thieu refused interviews. Equally important are the discussions with numerous combatants and non-combatants on both sides...
...small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed U.S. B-52 bomber, and the T-54 tank that first breached the gates of Nguyen Van Thieu's Independence Palace in Saigon in 1975. At a nearby carnival, the most popular game is the beanbag toss, in which gleeful children win pieces of candy by pelting a plywood figure of Uncle...
RECOVERING. Dang Tuyet Mai, 41, beautiful wife of Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier of South Viet Nam who escaped the Communist takeover of his country in 1975 and is now a liquor store owner in Westminster, Calif.; from a suicide attempt (she took an overdose of Valium); in Manila, while a guest of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, a friend since the 1960s...
Despite the harsh conditions, most Vietnamese say they prefer living in NW 82 to returning to Viet Nam. Indeed, more than 600 land people cluster around hospitals in three border camps, hoping to get into NW 82. Says Nguyen Quoc Khanh, 41, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, whom the Communists sent to a jungle work camp for three years: "If we can get into NW 82, perhaps we can eventually get on a resettlement list. If you lived in South Viet Nam, you would understand why people have to flee. If it takes three years, I will...
...Nguyen Co Thach, 59, Vietnamese Foreign Minister, on his country's economy: "We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally...