Word: haiphong
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...three-day trip for $20-$40, which includes boat rides, a bus to and from the capital and hotels halfway along in Bai Chay or Hong Gai, its polluted coal-mining neighbor to the east. (Getting there is definitely not half the fun: neither Bai Chay, Hong Gai nor Haiphong, a dismal collection of flyblown karaoke bars that are the jumping-off point to Ha Long Bay for those arriving by train from Hanoi, are places to linger...
...almost impossible as a writer to describe what is happening." From the border with China in the north to the rice mills of the Mekong Delta in the south, the California-size country is humming with activity. Hong Kong investors have been allowed to open a casino near Haiphong, and Westerners are bidding to develop tourist sites along the scenic coast between Danang and Nha Trang. Hanoi, long a city of bicycles and moldy old colonial edifices, is now rich in motorcycles and office buildings. In Ho Chi Minh City, as Saigon is now called, the April 30 parade marking...
...diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam. Washington continues to act as if Hanoi had sent its troops to invade Virginia instead of down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Since 1975, the U.S. has imposed a trade embargo against Vietnam that has been more effective than the mining of Haiphong harbor ever was. It has helped keep Vietnam's badly managed economy on its knees, which in turn has encouraged a steady flow of refugees to Hong Kong and Malaysia...
...whatever you want to call it. But because I think that I had enormous credibility with the North -- because of what I'd done on May 8 ((ordering the mining of North Vietnamese ports)), because of what I'd done in December ((ordering the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong)) -- they thought, Well, this unpredictable so-and-so, we can't be sure if we attack. You've got to remember, too, that the peace agreement worked for two years...
...going to be one until they take the uniform off my cold, dead body." The major's call sign is Darth Vader. Reservist Lieut. Colonel John Haynes, an Air National Guardsman from Georgia, was an F-4 "gib" (guy in back) in Viet Nam. He happily recalls "trolling" Haiphong Harbor, hoping to lure out MiGs. Now owner of two evangelical Christian bookstores in Atlanta, Haynes still finds flying magical. "We take a brick, put a little sheet metal on it, add propulsion and cram it into the air," he enthuses. "That's neat...