Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helos" pick us up from a pad on the roof? Or would buses take us to Tan Son Nhut, which had been under Communist attack for twelve hours? At 35 Gia Long we discovered that the building door had been padlocked. There were no instructions, only a faded Sign: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, SAIGON EDUCATION CENTER. A few French civilians joined our group...
...Tower of-Babel Theory, "Some of the board meetings are incredibly ugly," says publisher Robert Rotner, "but just the fact that they can get that way is a good sign." People can vell at the editor and publisher, he says: "Most companies don't allow that...
...shouting and bickering always a good sign? Could it be that an egalitarian structure makes staff members go to the wall to protest policies they would tolerate on a more traditional newspaper, simply because they resent anything that smacks of hierarchy? Real Paper staff members recall instances of pitched battles waged over trivial matters, and many cite a sort of combat fatigue as a reason they now want to sell. "The place is a snakepit, it's awful," says...
There have been no reliable reports of mass reprisals, though unconfirmed rumors of large-scale executions have come from other Communist-held areas. Buddhist flags are numerous, a sign that the Communists are trying to gain the cooperation of the powerful religious groups. The Communists have also promised to set up "popular councils" to run the affairs of the city. Though supervised by military committees, these councils will no doubt include neutralists willing to work within the framework of a Communist-dominated government...
...whole process of evacuation was beset by such disturbing uncertainty. TAT TAT CA DEN, MAY LANH VA QUAT KHI RA VE, instructed the sign on the bowling-alley wall at evacuation headquarters: "Turn off the lights, air conditioners and fans when leaving." It was an eerie notion that here, in an abandoned American bowling alley that had become a makeshift waiting room for thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, the light at the end of the tunnel was about to be extinguished at last...