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...bridges and 50,000 miles of roads need to be replaced or repaired. Hanoi anticipates spending about $1 billion before the turn of the century on harbor-dredging projects alone. The country also needs power plants, additional airliners and new hotels, dozens of which are already under construction in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City...
McWhirter has followed his share of stories for TIME since joining the magazine in 1963. He served four tours in Vietnam from 1965 to 1975, hanging on to the end, as part of TIME's team covering the fall of Saigon. He later went on to head bureaus in Johannesburg, Bonn and the Caribbean, where he earned an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on the Grenada invasion. McWhirter returned to the States in 1988 as a senior business correspondent and became Detroit bureau chief in 1991. Just in time, he says, to witness the revival of Motown...
...call it Planet Hollywood, Planet Reebok or the United Colors of Benetton. Taxi and hotel and disco are universal terms now, but so too are karaoke and yoga and pizza. For the gourmet alone, there is tiramisu at the Burger King in Kyoto, echt angel-hair pasta in Saigon and enchiladas on every menu in Nepal...
...customs: while new immigrants from Taiwan and Vietnam and India -- some of the so-called Asian Calvinists -- import all-American values of hard work and family closeness and entrepreneurial energy to America, America is sending its values of upward mobility and individualism and melting-pot hopefulness to Taipei and Saigon and Bombay...
Many, in fact, fail to get ahead in any way. In Westminster, the "Little Saigon" in Southern California's Orange County, 140,000 Vietnamese refugees are crammed into 5 sq. mi. often under deeply impoverished circumstances. Without the resources and planning that other Asian families have used in resettling, many of them work at dead-end jobs or, as a last resort, subsist on government handouts, which profoundly shames them. Says Nghia Tran, 30, executive director of the Vietnamese Community of Orange County: "As refugees, this population represents a special set of needs, and sometimes they are not met. This...