Word: saigon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program director called a wartime comrade, Quan Le, who commanded the South Vietnamese explosive-ordnance forces during the war, escaped from Saigon in 1975 and settled in Dallas. Le, 54, rounded up 19 strong, young Vietnamese and Laotians from the area and piled them into three cars that arrived in Hawthorne in two days...
...Frontier withrenewed patriotism. "When Kennedy sounded thebugle, I was more than ready to follow." But theturmoil of the late '60s taught Larsen, who coveredthe tumultous 1968 Democratic convention inChicago for Time magazine, that the solution forchange "was to openly challenge the system." Asbureau chief for Time magazine in Saigon in theearly 1970s, Larsen grew disillusioned with "theanarchy" he saw in almost half of the AmericanGI's on drugs. "Kennedy would have beenpessimistic himself...
Most of the prose poems in this memoir of Viet Nam amount to Polaroids hastily snapped before the mind forgets what it has witnessed: children rioting over candy at a Saigon orphanage; a bar girl singing to a G.I. ("You give me baby./ I give you V.D."). But as the authors pass out their pictures, they also provide moving autobiographies. Wendy Wilder Larsen reconstructs the early '70s from the American point of view; Tran Thi Nga offers a far more unusual perspective. The daughter of a Vietnamese mandarin, she twice became the second wife in polygamous marriages, first...
...Washington-based Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The winners included a physics major, a musical prodigy who finished first in last year's New York Philharmonic Concerto Competition and an Air Force Academy cadet from Viet Nam who in 1975 was forced to flee Saigon in a refugee boat...
...turbulent presidential election campaign. Correspondents William Stewart and Barry Hillenbrand flew to the Philippines for the final days of the campaign. For Stewart, TIME's Washington-based diplomatic correspondent, it was his first trip to the Philippines since he visited the islands after reporting on the American evacuation of Saigon in 1975. His assignment: to determine whether the campaign justified Washington's growing concern about Marcos' leadership. Stewart followed the President's campaign on the islands of Bohol and Negros in monsoon rains. Hillenbrand, who is based in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf, endured bone-jarring rides on motorcycles...