Word: phuong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bahrain Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand has a special reason to remember his tour in Viet Nam. In September 1974 he married Nguyen Thi Phuong Nga, a Saigon university student. The next year he tried, and failed, to get his Vietnamese in-laws out of the country. Six years passed before they were allowed to immigrate to the U.S. TIME was able to get many of its Vietnamese employees and their families out of the collapsing country. Dang Nguyen, bureau manager from 1964 to 1975 and now the chief of Time Inc.'s wire room in New York City, flew...
With 67 other refugees, Nguyen Phuong Thuy, 15, slipped out of Viet Nam in a 33-ft. boat. The craft was well into the Gulf of Thailand and the presumed zone of safety when it was attacked, not by pursuing Vietnamese but by a vessel carrying eight Thai fishermen. The pirates kidnaped Thuy and another young girl, then sank the refugees' boat with the rest of the Vietnamese still clinging to it. "I can't forget the look on my little sister Tran's face when she slipped below the water," Thuy said later. "I still...
...Nguyen Phuong Thuy is not alone. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), women on 81 % of the boats reaching Thailand in the first nine months of 1981 were raped, most of them many times over. A total of 552 were attacked in front of their relatives; another 200 were carried off to other fishing vessels. The attackers, many of them carriers of venereal diseases, often left the women infected as well as brutalized. Many victims became pregnant. A report to the relief agency CARE by a doctor who worked at the Songkhla camp...
Meanwhile, Nguyen Phuong Thuy is slowly recovering from her nightmare. Recently, she wrote to her family in Viet Nam: "My dear mother, don't think about coming by sea. Escape or not, you surely will be dead, but I think it's better to be dead in Viet Nam. For me, I will never forget my travail on the sea. Don't follow me, my dear mother...