Word: saigon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ever since Saigon fell in 1975, Viet Nam has been almost completely closed to Americans. In the past month, though, Hanoi's leaders have welcomed successive visits by two U.S. congressional delegations in a renewed campaign to win friends in Washington and secure U.S. diplomatic recognition. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, who accompanied one of the groups, was permitted to stay on in the Communist capital through last week. His report...
...contrast with the old Saigon could not be more striking. Even toward the end of the war the southern capital exuded raffish energy from its thriving markets and lively night life. There are no cabarets in Hanoi, and since the departure of the city's Chinese, almost no restaurants. One can visit the Thuy Ta floating cafe at night to drink iced coffee and watch the moon glisten on the Lake of the Returned Sword, but many Hanoi residents consider that an extravagance. On humid summer evenings the largest crowds gather at the grassy esplanade in front...
...movie here. Inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, Coppola wanted to portray America's Viet Nam adventure as a literal and metaphysical journey into madness. The literal journey is taken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), an officer who is commanded to travel upriver from Saigon to Cambodia. His mission is to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once exemplary Green Beret who has now gone crazy and set up a kingdom of murder in the darkest jungle. "There is no way to tell [Kurtz's] story without telling my own," Willard explains early...
...refugees have one important thing going for them: their predecessors, who fled Viet Nam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, have adjusted well to life in Western Europe and the U.S. Though there have been traces of resentment against them, as there have been against immigrants of the past, the Vietnamese as a group have shown themselves to be hard-working and proudly self-sufficient. According to a new study by the University of Maryland, the Vietnamese employment rate in the U.S. is higher than that of the American population as a whole, and the number of Vietnamese refugees...
...airfields, but also in keeping open its ports. To move Hanoi's troops between its forward bases in Cambodia and the China border and the rest of Viet Nam, Soviet pilots fly them in mammoth Antonov-22 transports. Tan Son Nhut airport near Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is kept busy handling incoming flights of Ilyushin-76s, carrying pallets of artillery ammunition for use, presumably, in Cambodia. Danang airport, almost a ghost field after 1975, now serves as a refueling base for long-range TU-95D reconnaissance planes of the Soviet naval air fleet...