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...Asian food stores and convenience storesthat have sprung up in recent years are attemptingto co-exist with the adult clubs. Shops like thePho-Hien-Vong, a Vietnamese grocery store, aretypical of the places that are changing the CombatZone's character. Now, a Store 24, servingSuper-Chugs and Ben and Jerry's ice cream, liesacross the street from the Naked I strip club.Above the Store 24, the China Trade Center is partof an attempt by the Asian community to reclaimthe Zone, observers...
...children of emigres, the emphasis is on education. "When they have good knowledge, they make good money," explains Vong Ly, a Hmong tribesman from Laos who now lives in Banning, Calif., with seven of his nine children, ages eight to 17. Medicine, law, engineering, business and computer science are the favored fields. Le Trinh, a Vietnamese-born Chinese who arrived in Houston five years ago, will enter Texas A&M in the fall to study engineering. "It's not my favorite subject," she admits. "I love teaching, but that pays...
...less food. The silver bowls have been replaced by plastic ones, bought on the black market. Yet the ritual is more important than ever. "People have asked to revive this dawn rite so they can share the little they have in order to make merit," explains Tep Vong, the senior Buddhist monk in Kampuchea. "We are rebuilding the entire structure of our social and religious life...
...Mekong River lifeline, thereby depriving the capital of crucial supplies and diverting large numbers of government troops from the city's defense. Sosthene Fernandez, the Vietnamese-Filipino commander in chief of government forces, stoutly insisted that "we can open the river," but the chief of naval operations, Admiral Vong Sarendy, conceded that the situation on the Mekong was "hopeless." Meanwhile, the capital's sole maintaining lifeline of emergency supplies was the Phnom-Penh airport. Insurgents, dug in less than five miles from the airport, last week were shelling it with as many as 60 rocket...
Souvanna Phouma, 68, a nephew of Laos' longtime (1904-1959) King Sisavang Vong, lacks Sihanouk's brash style Nonetheless, he performs with skill. A cultivated, retiring figure who looks and acts like a country gentleman, Souvanna has four times taken on the unenviable job of leading a government that is split between the Communist left, Neutralist middle and Royalist right...