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...crowd of about 200 gathers outside the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court to hear the scuttlebutt on Vietnam's spiciest trial in memory. Nam Cam, Vietnam's most powerful and vicious gangster, is in the dock on seven charges, including murder, along with at least 154 co-accused. He will probably face a firing squad. Suddenly, police throw seven women into a jeep and drive them away. "A threat to the peace," one policeman explains. The women's crime: they were trying to sell fans and cold drinks to the spectators...
...Saigon?only bureaucrats and tourists call it Ho Chi Minh City?is a notoriously freewheeling place where everyone seems to be hustling for a buck. But no one has worked the angles like Truong Van Cam, a.k.a. Nam Cam (Fifth Orange), who reigned for 15 years as the Godfather of Saigon. The 56-year-old former dockworker and soldier ran card games and cockfights, restaurants and brothels, collected protection money and loan sharked. He raked in an estimated $2 million a month?small potatoes for other Asian dons, perhaps, but unheard-of wealth in Vietnam. Cam needed money...
...government, the case simultaneously became Vietnam's biggest corruption crackdown. Two of the 18 government officials on trial with him this month were members of the ?lite Central Committee, the Communist Party's 150-member main decision-making body. One of the accused, Bui Quoc Huy, was Ho Chi Minh City's police chief for years. Another, national-radio chief Tran Mai Hanh, is accused of writing a letter in 1996 that helped secure Cam's early release from a reeducation camp for a previous arrest. Apart from the courtroom proceedings, more than 100 police officers and other officials have...
...look back at the 1960s, for instance, it's obvious that decade alone could provide 80; almost everything changed during those tumultuous years. America entered the decade as a young, brash superpower and left it chastened by the stout resistance of Ho Chi Minh's fighters in Vietnam and shaken by the deep divide over the war among its citizens at home. On the domestic front, women, gays and lesbians and young people joined blacks on the ramparts to press for their own liberation. Popular culture turned around so far and so fast that it became known as the counterculture...
...instance, Benny from the ’Burbs used the show to show off his elegant T’ai Chi moves. During “The Covex Dance,” Covex (turntables) rolled up one pant leg and shimmied on a single foot in a circular motion...