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Today, Smithies--who says he grew to like Saigon very much, despite a "very rarefied atmosphere" that necessitated weekly trips to the provinces for a reminder that there was a war going on--is naturally less sanguine. "Whatever the merits of the cause. I'm deeply disturbed to see the U.S. forced into a position of unconditional surrender under any circumstances," he says. "And it's not clear to me that there is still a clear direction to foreign policy...
...took just a few days after the Provisional Revolutionary Government's victory last month for Smithies's acquaintances to stop asking him, as at least one had the first day, about "the end of those summers in Saigon." In the burgeoning New England spring, Saigon seemed very far away. It seemed more appropriate to remember smaller-scale settings for imperturbability in the face of exciting or famous or upsetting people or events--the Agassiz Cup celebration, say, or the Kirkland House dinner two years ago at which Smithies gave President Bok a long, pointed introduction, replete with references...
...houses on fire, shot their animals, and destroyed their crops. Then they were left stranded outside Quang-ngai, perhaps intended to block the advance of the communist troops. Other areas received similar treatment by the South Vietnamese army. The Washington Post reported as early as March that officials in Saigon had ordered civilians in the central highlands to evacuate, so that Saigon could destroy these areas, through air strikes without regard for the civilian population...
...missionary in the Quang-ngai province that much of the city of Ban Me Thuot, the capital of Darlac province, had been destroyed by South Vietnamese bombing. The Provisional Revolutionary Government news agency reported that about 200 people were killed or wounded in this attack, some of them former Saigon soldiers and officers. The Saigon regime defended itself by saying they were only bombing to destroy military equipment and installations their troops left behind. The soldiers used scoreched-earth tactics as well to destroy the area before the communists reached it and to drive the populace into the cities. People...
...inter-country adoption process is elaborate. Richard Darby, adoption director of International Adoptions Inc.--a program set up by My Friends House, a Newton organization which ran a nutrition center in Saigon--says that most prospective parents have considered adoption for at least one or two years before applying. Either before or after the prospective parents submit their application, a licensed state or religious organization studies their home, usually for two months, to determine their motives and their ability to rear a child from another culture. After the home-study, it may take a year or longer before the parents...