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Like their American counterparts, the patients at Ha Bac are both proud and reticent, resigned to their wounds, sometimes angry, often confused. Says Vu Trung Hien, 43, paralyzed since 1968 by a shrapnel wound in the back sustained in Phuoc Long province: "I did my duty. But after I was wounded, I wondered if the war was right or wrong. It cost so much. I still wonder." His roommate, Hoang Dinh Trung, 39, was similarly disabled in 1972 in Quang Tri province during a B-52 raid. "I was only 18 when I was mobilized," he says. "Looking back...
Vietnam has seen no major public demonstrations for greater democracy, though there has been a lively debate in some of the state-controlled press and among academicians and trade unions. In part this may be because Hanoi has ruled with a lighter touch than Beijing. Says Tran Phuoc Duong, the American- educated rector of Can Tho University, deep in the Mekong Delta: "Something has happened. There has been a lot of internal relaxation. The pace of change has taken people by surprise...
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Recently, Plaquemines has had a new minority to deal with. An old wooden shrimp boat, billowing black smoke, pulls into an isolated bayou near the mouth of the river. Laughingly pushing his cousin aside, Phuoc Nguyen, 11, grabs the tie line and loops two half hitches around a stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many...
...given up. Although not officially abandoned by Saigon, Thua Thien, containing the ancient imperial capital of Hue, was by week's end clearly in imminent danger of falling into North Vietnamese hands. In the South, only 50 miles north of Saigon and next to already fallen Phuoc Long, Binh Long province was relinquished. In addition, several other provinces were seriously threatened by Communist forces; at week's end one of them, Quang Due on the southern edge of the Central Highlands, fell...