Word: saigon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Newstour was the largest group of U.S. business leaders to visit Viet Nam since the end of the war. A two-day stopover in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) provided the travelers with poignant reminders of the conflict. At one point, the group was escorted to the crash site of a B-52 bomber that had been shot down over Hanoi in December 1972. A U.S. insignia was still visible on the wreckage. The Newstour met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach and aging Premier Pham Van Dong. In an interview that is excerpted...
DIED. Marsh Clark, 56, a TIME correspondent for 22 years whose career as bureau chief in New York City and six foreign countries frequently took him to centers of combat and conflict, including Saigon (1968-70), Jerusalem (1970-72 and again during the October War of 1973), Moscow during the waning of detente (1975-78) and, since 1980, volatile South Africa; of cancer; in Johannesburg...
...Asian immigrants is pouring into the U.S. Some of the newcomers do indeed continue to wear the comfortable flowing garments of their native lands. And in cities like Westminster, a Los Angeles suburb, an elaborately decorated archway stands prominently among shops that are designed to be reminiscent of Saigon...
...manage to resume careers with relative ease, though often in circumstances that they could never have imagined in their previous lives. Dr. Diem Duc Nguyen, 39, a South Vietnamese army surgeon who left Saigon on a refugee ship in 1975, tried working for a private ambulance service rescue squad in Florida but did not take to it. Then he learned of a medical retraining program in Nebraska and secured an interest-free loan to enter it in return for pledging to practice in rural Bridgeport (pop. 1,668) whose only two physicians were nearing retirement. Says Banker Eldon Evers...
...altering its racial makeup, its landscapes and cityscapes, its taste in food and clothes and music, its entire perception of itself and its way of life. There have long been Chinatowns in American cities, but now there is Little Havana in Miami, Koreatown in Los Angeles, Little Saigon in Orange County, Calif., Little Odessa in Brooklyn, N.Y. Monterey Park, Calif., was the first U.S. city to have a Chinese-born woman as mayor, and the five-member city council includes two Hispanics and a Filipino American; Hialeah, Fla., has a Cuban-born mayor; Delaware, a Chinese-born Lieutenant Governor...