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From his first day in Vu Quang, a reserve that lies on the mountainous divide separating Vietnam from Laos, biologist John MacKinnon realized that he had entered an extraordinary, almost magical domain. Working out of a small army base that in earlier years had housed North Vietnamese troops, MacKinnon and a team of Vietnamese researchers set out in May 1992 on an expedition sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. Their mission: to survey the animals in a mysterious area of moist, dense forest largely unexplored by scientists...
Returning from his first hike in the forest, MacKinnon encountered zoologist Do Tuoc, who had spent the day talking with hunters in the nearby village of Kim Quang about wild goats in the region. MacKinnon felt a flash of excitement when Do Tuoc mentioned coming across skulls with long, curved horns mounted proudly on posts in hunters' houses. "You'd better show me," said MacKinnon, for he knew of no goats of that description in Southeast Asia...
...Many summer emeployers want people who can start early," Quang T. Tran '97 said. "Having our school year end sooner would help us compete for summer jobs and get interviews done...
...Bennington, Vermont, and died. The driver was a 26-year- old Vietnamese refugee, a re-education camp survivor who a few years earlier, on his third try, had escaped from Vietnam by boat. In the U.S. he had taken to calling himself Jade because Americans could not pronounce Ngoc Quang Huynh. With him were two teenage brothers and a nephew. They were headed not to Vermont but simply "east," to find a place to settle. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, sheltering in a church basement, Jade had a bad dream and decided to move on. The old buildings of Buffalo...
...served the three successive Administrations in POW-MIA discussions with Hanoi, departed for Vietnam last week. His mission had been to assess whether the POW-MIA dispute had been sufficiently resolved to allow normalization to proceed. Now Vessey must also try to solve the mystery of the Quang report. And no matter what Vessey concludes, there is a good chance that many Americans, never keen about normalization in the first place, will decide that their old enemies can just stew a while longer...