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...REVIEWING STANDS ARE UP; THE COMMEMORATIVE billboards are in place along the parade route and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, is bracing for the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Network stars and war correspondents such as Dan Rather and Peter Arnett will be reporting from the roof of the old U.S. embassy and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Veterans' groups and congressional fact-finding delegations are swarming over the country. Instead of simply reliving the war, though, the visitors are discovering the new Vietnam, where rooftop satellite dishes and joint-venture hotels signal the emergence...
...born in Saigon in 1948 and hadmany relatives who died as a result of the war,focused on a different aspect of the conflict inher comments...
...allowed to open a casino near Haiphong, and Westerners are bidding to develop tourist sites along the scenic coast between Danang and Nha Trang. Hanoi, long a city of bicycles and moldy old colonial edifices, is now rich in motorcycles and office buildings. In Ho Chi Minh City, as Saigon is now called, the April 30 parade marking the end of the war will be set against a landscape bristling with billboards and construction cranes...
Nowhere is that problem more evident than in the country's attitude toward Ho Chi Minh City. Many southern revolutionaries who helped win the war felt cheated in the years following 1975, when Hanoi's hard-line communists almost fatally "reorganized" much of old Saigon's industrial and commercial base. Now the city is in the heat of a spectacular comeback. A third of both Vietnam's gdp and its central-government revenues come from Ho Chi Minh City's textile factories, shrimp-processing plants and other businesses. The city is a commercial and banking center, as well...
...From beyond the grave Harry Houdini romances his wife with a misty melody and a huge set that flies away in a spectral swooosh! H.G. Wells zips through the centuries in his Time Machine and escapes the clutches of the dreaded Morlocks in a getaway that puts the Miss Saigon helicopter to shame. And at the end another magician, the EFX! Master, sits atop a crystalline globe held in a huge hand. He's an imp who works miracles...