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Long after Saigon's "liberation;" Hanoi still faces hard times
...been just five years since the jubilant troops of North Viet Nam swept into the crushed city of Saigon and brought an ignominious end to the Republic of South Viet Nam. For Hanoi, those euphoric days of victory held hope that the long years of sacrifice would finally be repaid with peace and prosperity. A U.S.-built network of roads, ports and communications facilities remained largely intact throughout the South and a united Viet Nam, blessed with two rice-rich river deltas, abundant coal and fertile fishing grounds seemed ready to emerge from the ashes of civil...
...sanctions against Italy after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. Other current U.S. embargoes are notably unsuccessful in either bringing down hostile regimes, muting their policies or stopping U.S. goods from getting through. Viet Nam has been subject to a trade ban since the 1975 fall of Saigon. Yet that country easily imports American products, ranging from drilling equipment and spare tractor parts to cigarettes and beer, by shipping them through Hong Kong or Singapore. Indeed, the ban is taken so lightly that Hong Kong exporters last year openly declared that $2 million worth of exports to Viet...
Kennedy for the Defense is an account of the events that take place while the lawyer attempts a holiday with his wife and teen-age daughter, dubbed Saigon because it was her timely birth that kept the attorney from being sent there. Kennedy is a variegated yarn of third-rate perpetrators, second-class citizens and first-person encounters. But it works. Under the author's increasingly deft touch, events blend like coffee and Irish whisky, and conversations ring as true as coins on a mahogany...
...fight the establishment. The dream still survived, long after John Kennedy and Martin Luther King were dead and buried. People in Cambridge marched down the streets when there were bad troubles in Birmingham and people in Birmingham marched up to Washington when there were bad troubles in Saigon...