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...temporary refuge for most of the Americans and Vietnamese evacuated from Saigon was the U.S.-administered island of Guam in the Western Pacific-"where America's day begins," as tourist brochures endlessly remind visitors. For thousands of Saigon evacuees, a curious mixture of delicate old Vietnamese ladies, Cholon Chinese, middle-aged American contractors and former Saigon bar girls, their days began last week at some extraordinary sites, among them: "Tin City," a neat compound of one-story barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, and Asan, a rusting, long-abandoned Seabee camp...
...small units using land mines and rifle squads. Today regiments and full divisions supported by armor and artillery are pitted against one another in all-out conventional warfare. It is the Communists who are on the offensive. "The North Vietnamese divisions today," remarked a European diplomat in Saigon, "remind me of good World War II armies tearing toward Berlin...
...support Israel have used the Nazi holocaust as political blackmail is unfair. Those Israelis who speak of the Holocaust of European Jewry in the context of the current crisis, do so, for the most part, not to be awarded the moral right to do anything they please, but to remind the world that their fears are not without historical foundation, a reminder sorely needed...
...Although the battlefields were relatively quiet, there was enough fighting to remind the South Vietnamese in the shrunken section under government control that the Communists were not far away. At midweek units of the North Vietnamese army and its Viet Cong allies started probing key government positions in the Saigon area. Often, as at Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, the attacks were no more than random artillery or rocket barrages. At Tan An, which straddles strategic Highway 4 and is only 20 miles southwest of Saigon, Viet Cong commandos overran the airstrip and held it for eight hours...
...young United States that slaughtered its native inhabitants, enslaved its imported ones, and enfranchised mostly property-owners was hardly unequivocally committed to the equality it began by proclaiming self-evident. But neither this fact nor the Bicentennial's official perversion should obscure its significance. The Bicentennial is a reminder of an event that--like the Vietnamese revolution today--turned the world upside down, laying a mighty country low and bringing power closer to a small country's ordinary people. It is no accident that Ho Chi Minh should have turned, when writing his own country's declaration of independence...