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...close of the opening round, two teenagers leaving the Augusta National had this exchange. "Hey, remember that eagle Hiskey got on 15?" "No, but look at this tan...
...North Vietnamese colonel stationed at the rear cargo ramp of a hulking U.S. Air Force C-141 transport presented a bamboo scroll painted with a Hanoi pagoda scene to an embarrassed American sergeant, whom he thought to be the last departing American. Moments later, Army Colonel David Odell, the Tan Son Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne near by. Though the 825 American members of the Joint Military Commission were to stay on in Viet Nam for another two days, Odell could tell...
...carrying Odell and 55 other departing servicemen was airborne. Outside the Tan Son Nhut gates, a crowd of newly unemployed Vietnamese base workers were busy hawking chairs, tables and canned goods that had been freshly looted from a G.I. mess hall. It was not an inappropriate finale; the last days of the U.S. military presence in Viet Nam were one great, giddy scramble. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss reports...
Once a charming French city of 500,000, Saigon reeks of the war that has officially ended. On Vo Tanh Street, west of Tan Son Nhut, paraplegic war veterans sell stolen army uniforms. Their wives and daughters are for sale on Cach Mang Street. Now that Saigon is jammed with more than 2,000,000 refugees, for whom there are no jobs, crime is becoming epidemic. Murders have increased by 50% since 1970, and robberies have jumped...
...last of the departing G.I.s went, like tens of thousands of their predecessors, through Tan Son Nhut's Camp Alpha. The camp has a capacity of 1,800, but in the last days there seemed to be about four times that many soldiers. Bags and bodies were everywhere. Recent arrivals stripped to their skivvies and sat in the sun. There were plenty of diversions: a swimming pool, a movie and an Alpha Club that featured the Dreamers' show band. But most G.I.s just waited, playing chess or pool or saying one final goodbye to girl friends...