Word: viets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still simmers on in Southeast Asia. It has been more than two years since Communist forces conquered South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, but Indochina's new regimes continue to face tenacious internal resistance. Some Indochinese resist by becoming refugees. The harsh economic conditions and political repression in their homelands are so unbearable that they will take extraordinary risks in hopes of finding refuge abroad (see following story...
...election-night rallies in the fashionable Fontainebleau and Dupont Plaza hotels, gay leaders were defiant and angry in defeat. Some homosexuals hugged and kissed in front of the cameras. One of the leaders was Leonard Matlovich, a Viet Nam War hero and the former Air Force sergeant who deliberately provoked a discharge in 1975 to challenge the service's right to dismiss a man for homosexuality (TIME cover. Sept. 8. 1975). Matlovich led a crowd of followers singing a version of We Shall Overcome and launched into Anita Bryant's favorite tune. Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Carter's advisers are banking on his broad popularity to offset the business community's concerns. A majority of Americans seem willing, so far, to give him the benefit of ihe doubt. Carter also benefits from a post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate, post-Richard Nixon phenomenon: lowered expectations. Few Americans feel that a President can work magic or cure all ills. "That may be a plus," says Carter Pollster Pat Caddell. At the moment, it may be one of the biggest that Jimmy Carter has going...
...VIET NAM VETERAN. While college students in the early '70s were militantly protesting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Ron Ridgeway, 27, of Houston's University of St. Thomas, was in a Viet Nam prisoner-of-war camp. The legacy of those war years is a stiff left shoulder, wounded when he was captured. Ridgeway began college as a history major but soon switched to economics and business as a more practical field. Even so, he is finding the job picture bleak. Ridgeway, who married more than three years ago and has a young son to support, is looking...
...Viet Nam veteran who employs 30 Vietvets as salesmen, Byers in the past four years has sold more houses than any other real estate agent in the county. A bachelor, he inhabits some fancy real estate of his own in Newport Beach and several days a month jets off to wherever sun or snow may beckon. Byers' secret has been to specialize in selling fellow veterans relatively inexpensive homes with VA-guaranteed loans. Says he: "We sell an average of 100 houses a month in the $60,000-and-below market. We make money on volume, not high-priced...