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...PHAM THI HUE has become a celebrity in Vietnam. The demure former tailor has appeared on television and on magazine covers, traveled abroad, and started working with the U.N. to help HIV-positive people. "I could never have imagined the things I'm doing now in my life," says Hue, 26. "Just a few years ago, I wanted to die as soon as possible." In Vietnam, those infected are usually silent and shunned. Hue became a defiant exception. After her drug-addict husband infected her, she went public, and set up a support group in her native town...
...thought returning to Vietnam would be difficult. After all, my first attempt had not gone well. In October 1974, I left the country newly married to Nguyen thi Phuong Nga and for a new assignment in Rio de Janeiro. I had just completed two years in Saigon for TIME, reporting the chaotic endgame of a cruel war. Six months later, with Communist forces close to overrunning the country, I headed back to Saigon to try to bring out Nga's parents, five sisters and her brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed...
...million. Nguyen Vau Be and his family in rural Long An province raised 100 ducks to pay for their holiday celebrations and food this year, but when the birds became sick recently, they were forced to kill them. "There's no Tet for us this year," says wife Truong Thi Dua, watching as the live ducks are tossed onto a large bonfire. The family is being compensated with a total of $32 for their culled birds, less than they borrowed to buy them as ducklings last year. "Now we have nothing, not even enough money to buy ingredients...
Thieu gets the 'friendship' of your government; the Communists get the 'friendship' of those of you who don't like what your government does. Where do the Vietnamese people come in? Who is our friend? Yours sincerely, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Law '73 Hoang T. Ly, Harvard '76 Nguyen Thi Suong Hong, Harvard '75 Ho Hue Tam, GSAS 3 Pham Thi Hoa, East Asian Research Center
Thieu gets the 'friendship' of your government; the Communists get the 'friendship' of those of you who don't like what your government does. Where do the Vietnamese people come in? Who is our friend? Yours sincerely, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Law '73 Hoang T. Ly, Harvard '76 Nguyen Thi Suong Hong, Harvard '75 Ho Hue Tam, GSAS 3 Pham Thi Hoa, East Asian Research Center