Word: saigon
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...capital, however, had the look of a nation at peace. The promenade around the city's downtown lake was filled with teenagers, many in blue jeans, who were trying to cope with the latest craze imported from Ho Chi Minn City (formerly Saigon): platform shoes. In contrast to 1980, when the markets held little except black-market cigarettes, the stores were packed with shoppers and a limited range of merchandise. Instead of exhortations from Ho Chi Minh, display windows at the Hanoi general department store contained wicker furniture...
...ADMIRE Noam Chomsky's consistency. For years, he stood out as one of the harshest and most articulate critics of American involvement in Vietnam. When Saigon became Ho Chi Mihn City in 1975, Chomsky took on the role of apologist for the new Vietnamese regime. That stance alienated many of Chomsky's disciples, as it increasingly became clear the infant Hanoi government was subjecting its own citizens to more egregious repression than ever. The price of Chomsky's steadiness was high indeed: he lost much of his influence among the American Left...
...asked the Nobel committee to donate the prize, totaling $65,000, to a scholarship fund for children of American servicemen killed or missing in action in Indochina. The Paula and Louis Kissinger Scholarship Fund, named for my parents, was established for this purpose. On April 30, 1975, as Saigon fell, I wrote to the Nobel committee, returning the Peace Prize and the equivalent of the cash award. The committee refused to accept them, replying that intervening events "in no way reduce the committee's appreciation of Mr. Kissinger's sincere efforts to get a cease-fire agreement...
...military-civilian government in San Salvador is its own worst enemy, in the sense that it has alienated its own people and embarrassed what few friends it has left in the world. Still, the junta bears little resemblance to the assorted cliques and strongmen that the U.S. supported in Saigon...
...first textbooks in his field and founder of plastic-surgery services in several New York City hospitals, Barsky led the team that treated the "Hiroshima maidens," 25 deformed A-bomb survivors who came to the U.S. for surgery. In 1969 he set up a 50-bed unit in Saigon and spent much of the next six years there helping to treat more than 7,000 children, grafting skin and restoring savagely burned faces and hands...