Word: saigon
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Young argued in return that the communist government must be repressive because millions of Vietnamese have left the country. The panel marked the sixth anniversary of the fall of Saigon to communist forces...
...erotic blue veins of his nurse's feet. Ray--whose friends are becoming lesbians, whose parents had him by holy accident, who wants to fly, fuck and read poetry; Ray--who drinks too much wine and falls back in love with his wife. Ray--who dreams of Saigon and the Civil War, of phosphorous guns and all those glittering raised sabres. Ray! This hopelessly crazy fuck...
...days of the crisis. The son of a public works employee, Jones joined the State Department as a communications officer in 1965. He was stationed in Cairo in 1967 when the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War erupted. In 1975 he was one of the last Americans to flee Saigon. And then, on Aug. 23, 1979, he arrived in Tehran...
...Jones is too busy savoring his reunion with his wife and four daughters in Detroit to decide whether to continue in the Foreign Service. But Wife Mattie believes that even after Cairo, Saigon and Tehran, Charles Jones will soon be packing his bags for another post overseas...
...Trinh family's 10,000-mile odyssey from their home in Saigon to New York City has been both stormy and perilous. The seven Trinh brothers and sisters, who are ethnic Chinese, had secretly set sail from Saigon in April 1979 in a rickety fishing boat, with no more than a 50% chance of survival. Arriving on the coast of Malaysia one week later, the Trinhs first spent a year in a squalid refugee camp, then embarked for the U.S. last October. They arrived in New York City, where they were greeted by an uncle who lives in Queens...