Word: vo
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...Communists hoped their offensive would spark an uprising against the government of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. It did not: the invaders were thrown back, suffering disastrous casualties. Yet for the brilliant North Vietnamese commander, General Vo Nguyan Giap, Tet was an important symbolic victory. American confidence in the war effort, and in the leadership that had promised success, was irrevocably shattered. The images of war -- always shocking, bleak, agonizingly poignant -- took on a darker significance. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," declared a U.S. major in the battle for Ben Tre, a provincial capital...
Things wouldn't be so bad if the vultures out there would just leave us alone in our graceful dotage. Instead the smart alecks at U.S. News and World Report have to get in the act by dumping us to fourth place in their university survey, behind some vo-tech school and that other college in Connecticut. To add insult to injury, Dan Quayle, who could spell Harvard with the help of a dictionary and RogerAiles, denigrated us during his nationally televised debate with Lloyd Bentsen. But of course Quayle was just following George Bush's lead in making...
...about four Asians went to a high school dance at the convention center, thinking it was open to the public. The police came and sent them away. A few nights later a group of teenagers headed over to the Asians' motel, and a scuffle broke out. Dan Phi Vo, 31, was arrested for allegedly attempting to stab a local boy, jailed for two days, duly sentenced and fined $200. To the sheriff, the Asians had tried to "infiltrate" a high school dance and "mess with our kids." To Le and his UXB colleagues, Vo was a victim of small-town...
Just a handful of Vietnamese have chosen to remain in Hawthorne, but tension lingers. "There is nothing racist or slurist about it," insists the sheriff, "but we don't like outsiders telling us who we do like and who we don't." Vo still works as a scraphog under Le's supervision. "I've been in the U.S. for six years, and the first time I came to Hawthorne they put me in jail," says a bewildered Vo. "They have a bad feeling about Vietnamese people here...
...afraid, perhaps, but sometimes bitter. Villagers around Ben Tre talk of defoliants--Agent Orange--sprayed by U.S. aircraft killing the coconut trees that provided the main source of their income. Vo Van Canh, 49, a former Viet Cong, points to his 17-year-old son, who has the arrested development of a two-year-old, the result, says Vo, of dioxin poisoning. At the Tu Du Women's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc says her studies, though not conclusive, suggest that women exposed to the defoliants have 15 times as many fetal deaths as those...