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...investigating allegations that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown agreed to accept $700,000 to press for the end of the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam. As first reported in U.S. News & World Report and confirmed to Time by law-enforcement sources, a Florida businessman named Ly Thanh Binh claims a former associate of his boasted of enlisting Brown's aid shortly after he was nominated as Secretary. The FBI took the claims seriously enough to conduct a field investigation, but many of the case's facts remain unresolved, and no evidence has been presented to a grand jury. Brown categorically...
...problems of reaching a specialist can be a serious deterrent to students with specific medical problems. Thanh A. Nguyen '94 says that immediately before the start of his first year, he was in a car accident. The accident left him with a neck injury and a lot of pain...
...better than it was even five years ago, though she feels that living standards are still low. The long war is a receding memory. "In the past I was angry, but not now," she says. "It's over. I gave up my anger." A few doors away sits Ngo Thanh Binh, 26. A university graduate with a degree in economics, Binh has been unable to find a job. To make ends meet, he works in his parents' shop selling jeans. "It's been very difficult for me to get a job as an economist," he says. "I need to know...
Vietnamese Boat Person Vu Thanh Thuy, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "In fact, surprising as it may seem, the daily struggle of making a living in America is more difficult to cope with than all of the events we went through in prison and at sea. The reason is that there is nothing 'heroic' about surviving the never ending problems of daily life...
...town of Dien Bien Phu, with a population of about 4,000, is bustling as workers put finishing touches on exhibits in the new war museum, a converted rice warehouse filled with battle memorabilia, including bullet-riddled French helmets. In the nearby hamlet of Thanh An, 120 women dressed in long black skirts and brightly colored blouses drill barefoot in preparation for the anniversary parade...