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...country. Dang Nguyen, bureau manager from 1964 to 1975 and now the chief of Time Inc.'s wire room in New York City, flew out with his wife and six children on a U.S. Air Force plane a week before Saigon's fall. So did Staff Photographer Le-Minh Thai, now employed in the Los Angeles bureau. Bookkeeper Nga Thi Tran was able to get seats aboard a military helicopter three days later; she now works on TIME's news desk in New York. San Francisco Wire Room Operator Luong Long left by plane just two days before...
...shelling started at midnight. It was so heavy that I could hardly raise my head to fire at the men climbing toward us," said Squad Leader Ngun Chin, 29, describing the Vietnamese artillery rounds that rained last week on Green Hill, the last major Khmer resistance stronghold on the Thai-Kampuchean border. All night long, Chin and his 32 guerrilla fighters were pinned down in a trench at the edge of a steep escarpment that the defenders had hoped would protect them against being overrun. But shortly before dawn, Chin's squad received orders to withdraw, and the camp...
...days after the fall of Green Hill, Sihanouk, who nominally heads a tripartite coalition of guerrilla groups including the Communist Khmer Rouge, arrived at the Nong Bua (Lotus Pond) Temple in the Thai town of Surin for the cremation of one of his generals killed during the campaign. The Prince greeted his followers and conferred quietly with the general's widow. "The Vietnamese victory appears to be very impressive," he later conceded. "They have attacked all of the resistance bases. But the truth is that the coalition forces are far from dead. We have lost our biggest stronghold...
Then, when Vietnamese forces invaded Pol Pot's Cambodia in 1979. Chorn escaped to the jungle and ultimately reached a Thai refugee camp. An American adopted Chorn and eight other Cambodian refugees bringing them...
Most of us like to eat, and you're in the right town if you do, too. Because of its hordes of embasssy foreign service denizens, D.C. is second to probably only New York for international cuisine, especially Thai, Vietnamese and Latin American...