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...with all these opportunities to share the plight of the poverty-stricken, the caring and concerned seem irresistably drawn to Robert Kiely's commodious Bohemian hotel at the center of campus...
Karl Maier, 37, was at the controls of an unarmed MH-6 Little Bird helicopter when he spotted Wolcott's Black Hawk heeling over nose first. The stricken craft smashed into an alley about 500 yds. northeast of the target site the Rangers had first assaulted, its rotors chewing off the corner of a one-story building. Maier's decision was instantaneous. "I'm going in," he announced into his headset, and swung his aircraft toward the street corner. The space was so narrow that his blades barely cleared the houses on both sides as he set his bird...
...casualties rose, the medics were forced to dart from one stricken soldier to another. Crouched near the wreckage of Wolcott's chopper, Fales suddenly spotted five grenades sailing over a wall in his direction. Yelling to warn his comrades, he threw his body over two wounded soldiers to shield them from shrapnel. Meanwhile, Technical Sergeant Tim Wilkinson, 36, a Special Forces medic, also nestled next to the downed helicopter, heard a call from the other side of the street. It was Bray; his men needed medical attention. Yelling across the street for them to "lay down some cover," Wilkinson grabbed...
That acclaimed night in which -- so they say -- the page of history turned for our stricken land, we were, my friends and I, at Asha's cafe. Asha -- doctor, pilot, race-car driver -- is now a cafe owner. As we stared at a miniature TV screen, not quite believing what a fuss the world was making over the latest great swindle, one of our companions seemed to be melting into ecstasy over everything he was hearing...
...enthusiasts believe that assets like oil, timber and an industrious, literate population are the makings of another Asian miracle. Harder heads are skeptical, noting that the nation consolidated by Ho Chi Minh's heirs after the 1975 fall of Saigon is poverty-stricken and still at least partly under the thumb of ancient Marxists. Per capita income remains at $200 a year, one of the poorest in the world. Says Julian Reid, a director of Jardine Fleming Securities in Hong Kong: "In the medium to long term, Vietnam is extremely exciting. The short term is full of frustrations...