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...Tuesday, the day the theoretical-physics seminar met at FIAN ((the physics institute where Sakharov still worked)). I followed my customary routine, ordering a car from the academy's motor pool and leaving home at 1:30. At the Krasnokholmsky Bridge, a traffic-patrol car forced us to stop. From the front seat I saw two men get in the rear, flashing red IDs marked MVD ((for Interior Ministry)). They were actually...
IRCA was also supposed to increase the ranks of border-patrol agents within the INS to as many as 6,000. Congress never provided the funding, however, and today's 3,800 agents are overworked and demoralized. INS agents are now up in arms over a proposed reorganization scheme that will merge the prestigious antismuggling units into the larger bureaucracy. "Here in Los Angeles, the alien capital of America, the Act has had no impact in deterring smuggling," asserts Thomas Gaines, a 30-year INS veteran who retired recently as head of the largest antismuggling unit. "Enforcement is an absolute...
...soldier named Neh Kon, 30, lies on a wooden pallet. He has lost both legs -- one just above the knee, the other just below. The stumps are wrapped in flyspecked, blood-soaked bandages. Neh Kon's wife sits beside him, holding their young child. Two weeks earlier, on patrol in Khmer Rouge territory, Neh Kon stepped on a mine. "By the time we get peace," he says, "a lot of people won't have legs...
Twenty-three years after the fact, Denny McClellan's recurring dream is still vivid. Once again he is 18, back on patrol ten miles northwest of Danang in the company of equally wary, heavily armed grunts of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines. His M-16 is loaded for Charlie, and a couple of grenades are within easy reach in his flak jacket. His field pack weighs 40 lbs., and the day is surpassingly hot. The lance corporal his buddies call "Red" is sweating heavily. His squad leader, not much older than McClellan, gives a hand signal, and the patrol moves...
...million Vietnam vets suffering from post- traumatic-stress disorder and even for those who have adjusted well, a U.S. return to Vietnam might ameliorate the sense that America left a job unfinished. McClellan puts it this way: "Every time we walked down that road at the beginning of a patrol, we turned off. I've always wondered what was around the next bend. I want to go back before I get too old, and walk around that bend to see what's there. Then maybe I'll be able to put Vietnam to rest...