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President Carter clamped a number of restrictions on the CIA after disclosures in the 1970s that the agency, in violation of its own charter, collected files on 7,200 U.S. citizens in an effort to link Viet Nam War dissenters with foreign governments. Under the Carter order only the FBI, with approval of the Attorney General, may infiltrate and influence domestic groups. The congressional critics urged the White House to maintain this restriction in any new guidelines, and also recommended against weakening Congress's authority to oversee CIA operations...
With 67 other refugees, Nguyen Phuong Thuy, 15, slipped out of Viet Nam in a 33-ft. boat. The craft was well into the Gulf of Thailand and the presumed zone of safety when it was attacked, not by pursuing Vietnamese but by a vessel carrying eight Thai fishermen. The pirates kidnaped Thuy and another young girl, then sank the refugees' boat with the rest of the Vietnamese still clinging to it. "I can't forget the look on my little sister Tran's face when she slipped below the water," Thuy said later. "I still...
...plight of the boat people began after the fall of Saigon in 1975, when increasing numbers of South Vietnamese began fleeing the oppressive Hanoi regime in rickety fishing craft. By 1980, Thailand was overwhelmed by nearly 300,000 refugees from Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Government policy in Bangkok shifted, and Thai fishermen, who once came to the aid of the refugees, were given three-day jail sentences if they towed a leaking refugee boat to shore...
Except for the murderous fusillades, the botched Brink's job seemed a routine case. But as police and federal agents began to examine it closely, they found themselves back in the 1960s rummaging through the stale and dusty catacombs of Viet Nam-era radicalism...
Michael O'Shea, 34, owner of the Sports Training Institute in New York City, speaks for his generation: "Most of the people my age have been through the drug scene, Viet Nam, protesting and all that. Now instead of being a workaholic to the point where you have to have a house and car, we want something to equate how we feel about ourselves. If you spend more time on something like exercise, you may like yourself a little better...