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...hundreds of roadside monuments, while colorful posters exhorting one and all to remember the North Vietnamese army's heroic sacrifices adorn shopwindows. In Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, the airport is fringed by old bomb craters and littered with the hulks of U.S. transport planes. In Hanoi, the capital, the memories of war are cherished in details large and small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed...
DIED. William Henry Tunner, 76, Air Force general and genius of military air transport; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Va. He commanded three of the 20th century's historic airlifts: the World War II cargo transport over the Himalayan "Hump" from India to China, the massive 1948-49 Berlin operation that moved 13,000 tons a day of coal and food to the Soviet-blockaded city, and the Korean War's Combat Cargo Command that air-dropped supplies to U.S. troops trapped in North Korea by the Chinese...
Even members of the center-right opposition admit that the four Communist ministers in Mitterrand's government have proved to be competent administrators. At weekly Cabinet meetings, the Communists usually limited their questions to matters concerning their own portfolios in the ministries of transport, health, civil service and vocational training. Says a ranking Elysée official: "They were so accommodating, so nose-to-the-grindstone that we sometimes forgot they were there." Fears that the Communists might get hold of state secrets turned out to be groundless because defense planning is not discussed in the Cabinet...
...economic reforms have run into ideological opposition, with some orthodox Communist cadres questioning whether they can properly be called socialist. Officials thwarted a group of peasants who wanted to start a transport business by calling them capitalists and confiscating their vehicles. But publicity in the national press forced the officials to return the vehicles. The government, similarly, ordered a Shanghai rubber-research institute to reinstate an engineer who had been demoted for helping a small factory improve its miniature rubber bearings during his off-hours. Wang Ying, an independent fruit vendor in Peking, found herself on the front pages...
...airport" that will be able to handle jumbo jets is scheduled to begin in October. Because no flights are allowed from Argentina, the Falklands are even more isolated than they were before the war. Visitors arriving by air must take a slow, cumbersome C-130 Royal Air Force Hercules transport plane from Ascension Island, 4,000 miles to the north. Only passengers with "urgent or high-priority circumstances" are permitted to book seats. The flight, which costs $2,970 round trip, takes up to 14 hours and involves tricky midair refueling. If the crosswinds at Stanley Airport are too fierce...