Word: xuan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...improve oneself." The Han and Tang dynasties were both an age of economic prosperity and also one of flourishing international exchanges. Imperial envoy Zhang Qian's trip to the "West" in the Han Dynasty, over 2,000 years ago, opened up the world-famous Silk Road; Eminent Monk Xuan Zang, of the Tang Dynasty, brought back ancient culture after braving the long journey to South Asian countries. In the Ming Dynasty, Chinese navigator Cheng Ho led a fleet to what the people then called the "West Sea" seven times in the 15th century, spreading the Chinese culture to distant land...
Nguyen Huu An, then an NVA major general, tells a different story. He says he entered the Presidential Palace at 11:30, only to find that "the men who had taken the surrender, Lieut. Colonel Bui Van Thong and Deputy Commander Pham Xuan The, had taken Big Minh to the radio station to read it. Colonel The had drafted the surrender for Big Minh, but when Minh looked at it, he complained that The's handwriting was so bad he couldn't decipher the document. So he asked The to read it to him or write...
Though any of several dates could be picked as the beginning of Saigon's final agony, April 20 stands out. For one thing, it marked the fall of Xuan Loc, a small town 38 miles northeast of the capital and the site of just about the last prolonged and bloody battle of the war. If ARVN, the South Vietnamese army, could not hold there, it was unlikely to hold anywhere...
...proper course. In recent months critics have charged that conservative party leaders are blocking the reform process, as they begin to recognize that change may cost them--and family members--their sinecures. "A lot of people have dedicated their lives to getting us here," says Vo Tong Xuan, vice rector of Can Tho University. "We have to give them our respect, but not at the expense of the whole country." For Communist Party chief Do Muoi, 78, and Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, 74, the question is how much communism they can get away with jettisoning. A recent internal party...
...TIME photographer Greg Davis and I were in Hanoi for our first meeting with Ho Xuan Dich, director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel. Dich's deputy, Ngo Hoang, had participated in the February 1990 joint U.S.-Vietnamese visit -- known in MIA jargon as an iteration -- to the crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others...