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...camps were settling into the ordinary routines of existence. There were a few deaths and also some marriages. On Guam, an ex-G.I. named Thomas Hejl finally found and married Nguyen Thi Ut, the fiancee he had met during his tour of duty in Viet Nam several years before. Their daughter, born three years ago, was killed by a Communist gunshot as her mother carried her on a fishing boat fleeing Saigon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Painful Act of Being Born Again | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...Vietnamese students at Harvard talked last week about the effect the war and its ending has had on their lives. Suong-Hong Nguyen-Thi is a senior at Radcliffe majoring in economics. She had planned to return to her home in Saigon after graduation to work in her family's pharmaceutical company, but the capitulation of the Saigon government will force her to stay in the U.S. She came to Cambridge in 1972 to study at Harvard, and now lives off-campus with her six-year-old brother. He was sent to her last September when conditions in Saigon were...

Author: By Sarah K. Lynch, | Title: The Strings Are Cut for Students | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

...camp had one incongruous celebrity: former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who was billeted in a tent with 15 other refugees. Still sporting his familiar lavender ascot and displaying a forlorn jauntiness, Ky stood in long chow lines with the others, complained about the cold nights, and asked visiting reporters for warm underwear. He spoke vaguely of seeking an American sponsor to set him up as a farmer "in Arkansas or San Antonio," or of finding a new life as a cab driver. "For us," he said, "the only hope is that we shall return. When Hitler occupied Europe, people like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Journey to 'Freedom Land' | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...kitchen table in their small, two-bedroom house. In Tulsa, Okla., a gas-station owner, E.A. Stehle, set off with his wife in their Cadillac Eldorado for Fort Chaffee, determined to do what he could to help a Vietnamese family. Before the day was out, they returned with Colonel Nguyen Bang and eight members of his family wedged in the car. "We have to do what we think is right," said Stehle, who undertook to get the Bang family settled in Tulsa. Colonel Bang will work in the filling station and hopes to become a mechanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Journey to 'Freedom Land' | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Ophuls submitted an outline of his proposed film, along with a list of other "possible witnesses and interviewees." Albert Speer, Dr. Howard Levy and General Vo Nguyen Giap were on the list, as well as such prominent architects of American involvement as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. Ophuls stressed, however, that the lineup of people to be interviewed would have to depend on the budget and on whom would be available. The similarities between Nazi Germany and America in Viet Nam were, for Ophuls, "an open question-but one that had to be explored." He also insisted that the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Battle Over Justice | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

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