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After studies in Hue and Saigon, Ho worked his way as a cabin boy aboard a ship to Europe. There, supporting himself with odd jobs (pastry cook at London's Carlton Hotel, photo retoucher in Paris), he became enamored of Communism as the means of overthrowing his country's imperialist burden...
After the surrender of Saigon, TIME asked a number of Americans who, as planners or participants, critics or casualties, were closely involved with the war in Viet Nam for their reactions to the Communist victory and their reflections on the meaning of the generation-long conflict. The answers...
CLARK CLIFFORD, 68, Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, a Washington attorney: "It is the best result as far as the people of South Viet Nam are concerned. The fall of Saigon means a civil war has ended. What I hope it means in the U.S. is intelligent analysis-no recriminations, but a national debate. Asking basic questions like 'How did we get into this?' would imbed Viet Nam in our consciousness so we might never make this kind of mistake again...
...BROWN, 31, a key organizer behind Senator Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign and the 1969 antiwar moratoriums, state treasurer of Colorado: "My first reaction was one of hollowness. The reason, I guess, is that I don't see that the fall of Saigon gives rebirth to any of those things that the war killed, to any new hope or ideal or vision. "It doesn't wash away the hostile divisions of the last 15 years in this country. The group of people who make our foreign policy are the same men who have made the decisions...
JANE FONDA, 37, actress and antiwar activist: "What happened is what happened to us 200 years ago: a revolution for independence, playing itself out in Viet Nam. To say Saigon has 'fallen' is to say that the 13 colonies 'fell' two centuries...