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...case of Xuong and Nu Lu, Victor's parents, those fears were shaped in part by their memories of another war that ended a generation ago. Like more than half a million of their countrymen, the Lus came to the U.S. as refugees from Vietnam, having fled their native Saigon with their two young children after the Communist government took power in 1975. They made their home in east Los Angeles and had four more children. Victor was born in the summer of 1982. As the family built a new life in the U.S., the memories of the war that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Journey From War To War | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...Saigon glitters these days as it never did in the '60s and '70s. One night, Nga and I jump into a white taxi and cruise in a sea of motor scooters through neighborhoods dotted with shops selling bright clothes, utilitarian furniture, the latest electronics. We join a friend and his wife for dinner at a charming restaurant tucked away on a quiet residential side street. It serves splendid food from central Vietnam, a new sophistication in itself. Ten years ago, our host could not find a job. His wife kept the family afloat by running a small day-care center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Vietnam | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...take care not to overstate the case. Many people in Vietnam are crushingly poor and work long days on the street or in the fields to eke out a sparse living. They do not dine in the new quaint restaurants that now grace Saigon. When we traveled to the far north of Vietnam, near the border with China, the houses in the countryside reminded me of those I had seen in my travels in Ethiopia. My wife's aunt, a professor of social work in Saigon, reminds us that Vietnam is only beginning to cope with serious social problems like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Vietnam | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...Prior to this visit to Saigon, I spent five weeks in Kuala Lumpur, a city I first got to know in 1973 when it struck me as a sleepy, no-hope backwater. Today, Malaysia has raced far ahead of Vietnam, which is still hobbled by corruption, bureaucracy and ugly politics. Vietnam lost a generation of progress because it did not spawn leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad to set the country's economic course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Vietnam | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...find myself uneasy when I describe Saigon's indisputable success to Vietnamese back in the U.S. How do you tell someone that parts of the country they abandoned out of fear and desperation are now prospering, despite the continued bungling of the Communist government they understandably despise? And what about the millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of Americans who lost their lives in the war to keep the Communists at bay? Was all that death and sorrow worth it? I don't know. That's still difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Vietnam | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

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