Word: saigon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of moral freshness in the American imagination, a quality of collective heroic virtue for which the nation may be wistful. Liberation meant something very wonderful and literal then. It had not acquired the cynical, even Orwellian overtone one hears in, say, "the liberation of Saigon." And there were things that seemed worth dying for without question. Today the questions always seem to overshadow the commitment. The morals of sacrifice, so clear then, are more confusing...
...home, but living by hard deals everywhere else. The crisis in Democracy comes when Inez's father Paul, a voluble lunatic, shoots Janet to death, and Inez, mystified but somehow released, leaves her old life to go with Lovett to Hong Kong just before the fall of Saigon...
...Ninety-eight percent of the CIA operations in Vietnam were total fabrications," he said. Stockwell served as a case officer in Saigon during the Vietnam...
...fact is that Egypt is not Iran, the West is not Rome, Israel is not a crusader state, and KAL 007-despite the public fretting of Professor Stanley Hoffmann-was not Sarajevo. Nor was Saigon, as we once thought, Munich. The real "lesson" of Viet Nam is not, as we are so often told, that everything from Central America to the Middle East is Viet Nam (or some other convenient fiasco). It is that facile historical analogies can prove fatal...
...Boat People, that she has chosen the latter course. Her film is not a meticulous precis of Vietnamese politics; it is a fast-paced, humanist melodrama centering on one family that, in the chaos of reconstruction that faced the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, finally determines to flee the country on an agonizingly slow boat through the China...