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...best of times or, depending on your political and philosophical outlook, one of the foulest and most depraved. Rebellion seemed to be leaping from city to city, continent to continent, by some fiery process of contagion. Vietnam unleashed the Tet offensive; France shook with the revolutionary "events of May"; radical students filled the streets of Mexico City, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Prague. In the U.S., Chicago swirled into near anarchy as cops battled antiwar demonstrators gathered at the Democratic Convention. And everywhere from Amsterdam to Haight-Ashbury, a generation was getting high, making love, acting...
Inevitably, Tobias says, he was kicked out of Hill for ignorance and bad ) behavior. His memoir ends there, but his life didn't. He went on to serve in Vietnam as an adviser to a Vietnamese regiment in the Delta during the Tet offensive. Then he got a degree at Oxford. He worked for a few months as a reporter at the Washington Post, then quit to invent himself again, this time truthfully, as a fiction writer...
ASIA: Remembering Tet...
...Tet offensive finds no place in the Vietnamese pantheon of military victories. The government did not even bother to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle this year. Today, says a journalist who lives in the south, "most people here just want to forget about it, and most young people just don't care...
...sign for major Japanese firms, which had been operating through foreign subsidiaries for several years, to enter the Vietnamese market with a splash. Already there is a gleaming Toyota showroom in Ho Chi Minh City. Says Tran Bach Dang, one of the top three commanders of the Tet offensive: "I could almost understand the embargo before, but now it makes no sense. Does America want Japan to take over this whole region...