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Although the marketplace may seem chaotic to an untrained eye, it is run as efficiently as IBM. It is laid out like a Viet Cong tunnel system. The empty buildings are warrens filled with dealing and supply points, escape routes and booby traps for police. Apartments are fortified: door ways are bricked up with cinder blocks, leaving only a small opening for the passing of drugs and money, or blocked by bunkers of diamond-plate steel. Some dealers sell by lowering buckets from apartment landings; the stairs leading to the landings have been removed. The big-time dealers organize "clubs...
Gritz's mission implausible grew out of the reality that 2,494 Americans were never found after the Viet Nam War, including 568 left unaccounted for in Laos. By now, all but two are listed as "presumed dead." Most of the 484 "sightings" reported over the years have been as hazy and hopeful as the spotting of UFOs. After investigating the issue closely, a 1976 congressional committee concluded that no American prisoners survive. Yet Vietnamese prevarication, U.S. Government secrecy, and resilient wishfulness - especially among the National League of Families (N.L.F.), most of whose members are related to missing...
Gritz, the son of a B-17 pilot shot down over France in 1944, is a self-appointed caretaker of those hopes. Decorated 60 times during the Viet Nam War, he once led 250 Cambodian mercenaries on a daring raid that attacked 53 Viet Cong camps in 60 days; he lost only one man. Even after he left the Army in 1979 as a lieutenant colonel, Gritz never really left Indochina. In 1981 he rounded up 21 drifters, dreamers and desperadoes, recruited a psychic, a hypnotherapist and some reporters, and began practicing quixotic Laotian expeditions at an unlikely locale...
...many Asians, stress is the price of survival. Nearly half the 160 Vietnamese students at Brighton High School in Boston left their families in Viet Nam or in refugee camps. These immigrants must learn English at school in bilingual programs. In a Brighton chemistry class, Teacher Dang Pham lectures about the dac, the long and the khi before discussing the concepts of solid, liquid and gas in English. When test time comes, most students choose to take the test in English. Says Pham: "They have to learn to adjust to a new system in a new society so they...
...N.C.C. denies the charge that it has funded Communist governments. But it has in fact channeled material goods to the Viet Nam regime in order to help peasants. While that is the only way to operate in the totalitarian country, N.C.C. statements consistently ignore the fact that the "new economic zones" it supports are part of an oppressive political pattern. Churches would never be so shortsighted in treating, say, South Africa...