Word: tien
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHANG-LIN TIEN, CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
...fled Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the day that Saigon fell. He made his way to Washington's "Little Saigon" and launched a caustic anti-Hanoi column for the Vietnamese-language biweekly Tien Phong. For years, he castigated the Vietnamese government for, as a colleague put it, "betraying the people...
...workers at Tien Phong are convinced that the murders were political assassinations carried out, one said, by "communist agents" working for the Hanoi regime. Police said they had no suspects...
...murder was only the latest attempt to silence Vietnamese journalists. In 1980 the house of Tien Phong's publisher, Nguyen Tranh Huang, was fire bombed. Last year the magazine's layout artist, Nhan Trong Do, was found dead of gunshot wounds in his car in Virginia. Since 1981, three other journalists who put out Vietnamese publications have been killed, two in California and one in Texas...
...faculty members in colleges throughout the U.S. nearly doubled, to 19,000. Asians make up 10% of California's population but 12.2% of the state's university enrollment. At the University of California's Berkeley campus, the proportion is 20.8%. In February the University of California named Chang-lin Tien, a Chinese American, as head of the prestigious campus. Still, Asian parents complain of quotas that limit the access of their children to the top schools...