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...crackling with electricity this Tuesday in Saigon (officially Ho Chi Minh City, but the locals have reverted to the old name). Monsoon clouds are moving in from the west. People are hurrying along sidewalks, newspaper vendors are getting out plastic sheeting, cyclo drivers are making for shelter...
...office in an advertising agency across town, Pham Phu Xuan, 31, can see the storm approaching too. He is on the phone setting up a TV shoot for a shampoo commercial. Hong Nhung, 30, one of Vietnam's most popular singers, is working out in her gym in the Saigon Center. Drops of rain are starting to splash on the windows--and she has to get to a rehearsal later for a concert she is giving over the weekend. Only Nguyen Quang Huy is oblivious to the coming deluge. The 21-year-old bar owner and music promoter is shut...
Perhaps most important, arms control gave the Soviets and us something to talk about at a time when there was very little else to talk about. We were fighting over every inch of the globe, from Berlin to Saigon. So, every few years, we would trade beans in Geneva, shake hands for the cameras and thus reassure the world that we were not going to blow...
...woman is raped in the bathroom of Lamont Library, prompting administrators to move the women's restrooms to the first and fourth floor, and install combination locks on the doors. 28 - The United States Embassy orders the final evacuation of all 900 Americans from South Vietnam after attacks on Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Air Base and after South Vietnam President Duong Van Minh demands that all Americans leave the country. This ends 30 years of American involvement in the Indochina...
EHUD BARAK D'oh! Saigon-style evacuation of Lebanon embarrassing. Uh, got a plan if Hizballah starts shelling...