European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday june 2, 1980 mock attack in Japan pm. William Brockington left with � Marine Bat Talion Landing team lakes a position in the grass just or team members Douglas Moore left and Markdale also take part in the exercise considered effective training for any action in South Korea or the persian Gulf. A Poloi before a practice assault at Camp Fuji a is. Iraln Laiing installation near Tokyo. Above Marine Lank kill open arms for 1st . Tourists Joyless Viet City nostalgic for War by Jeffrey Robbins to Chi Minh City. Vietnam a you Are americans the stamp seller s eyes lit up. Arc the americans com ing Back told it was not Likely she said then we will surely a camera dealer in this drab and poverty Ridden City that once was Saigon quoted deceased communist Leader to Chi Minh himself to make the same Point the most precious gift is Freedom. Once you have lived with Freedom he added How can you accept anything else the american visitors in Saigon stand ing put in crowds that teemed with . Soldiers and civilian workers not so very Long ago. Were members of the first is. Tourist group allowed into the country since the last americans were evacuated by helicopter five years and one month ago. The group which left Vietnam last thursday included six americans and four australians. Although admitted As tourists and kept on a tourist itinerary thy were All reporters or photographers. This Lovely City once the Pearl of the Orient under French colonial Rule then a Busy War bloated capital pulsing with life under the americans is now a drab and Joyless place where food is scarce and thousands sleep on sidewalks. It is tilled ironically with nostalgia for the Days of the War that brought so much havoc and death. Saigon s new rulers hic not forgotten the americans either. The visitors who paid $900 each for their strictly controlled even Day visit were whisked around to a War crimes museum in the former . Embassy and to cd Chi Northwest of Here where they were shown the elaborate tunnels used by the communist forces in fierce Battles with american and South victim use forces. Other slops included the Mekong River Delta and the Seaside resort of Vung Tau. Wherever the americans went they Drew stares smiles whispered confidences and Picas for help. The Only hostile re actions came from soviet advisers. A barroom full of russians rejected a Case of Beer offered by some americans. Another time an american was subjected to a Finger wagging lecture in a language that neither he nor the vietnamese around him could understand. A Saigon use Man walked up to an american in a crowd and whispered quickly without raising his eyes. Things arc bad Here. Everybody wants to leave. Me too he disappeared As quickly As he appeared. Lien so Lien so children called mockingly at Western visitors using a North vietnamese word for russians. When they were told these were americans Hoa by they gathered around chattering and laughing. On the Street a woman with a Small child in Low lugged at an american s sleeve. This is my she said. Does t he look american he had an american father but i have lost track of him. Please Lake my son Back with you to America and give him a better the stamp seller constantly urging her new american Friend to look at the Stamps so that authorities would not grow suspicious said her life in to Chi Minh City is desperate. They took away my Home. They sent my boy to fight in Cambodia. They give me no rations she said. It is very difficult 10 tears streamed Down her face and she turned away. The camera dealer said he has tried six times to flee Vietnam and All those limes i was betrayed. The last time i spent two years two months and three Days in a re education Camp. This is another word for he said he would try to leave again. And if i am caught again. I will surely kill " everywhere they went the americans s. African newspapers urge Coo ing boy coff Johannesburg up news papers joined opposition leaders sunday in warning that a classroom Boycott by non while students has exploded into a full blown crisis of expectations that could end in a National tragedy. Unless the atmosphere is cooled soon there it a High probability that Joung Black people May again be dying in the streets possibly in larger numbers than in 1976 sow clo riots said the sunday times. Make no mistake we arc a twitch away from the sunday express viewed the Situa Tion As ominous and scored the government for trying to suppress the wors ening student strike by mass arrests of possible leaders. Opposition politicians and Church loaders a no complained against the government preventive policies but few offered any alternative outside of suggestions thai All sides should agree to a Cooling off period. The glut of comment came on the six week old Boycott initiated and still dominated by the nation s coloured students. The demonstrations and violent Inci dents that developed in Cape town after police in civilian clothes killed two col ored students and wounded six others tapered off heavily As the country cum into a three Holiday weekend. Police reported a few incidents Friday and saturday but All were minor and no arrests were made. Were approached by women desperately trying to find a Way out of the country with the mixed blood children of Ameri can husbands and boyfriends Long since gone. Especially on the last Day of the Ameri cans stay women and sometimes the Chil Dren pressed around slipping letters petitions and photographs into the visitors hands. The moment of most blatant nostalgia came when the vietnamese tour guides invited the americans to the saturday night dance at the former . Officers club where the russians and their East Ern european allies Are now entertained by nightclub style vietnamese singers. As the americans walked in. The music stopped and the next moment the Viet namese girls in their silk dresses were sing ing an old beatles tune. Yesterday they Sang All my Trou Bles seemed so far away. Now it seems As though they re Here to slay. As if to make sure their message got across they Sang another favorite those were the Days my Friend we thought they d never end we d sing and dance forever and a Day. We d live the life we choose we d fight and never lose. Those were the Days of yes. Those were the a 3 convicted of killing woman in Bingo game Oakland. Calif a three men have been convicted of murder in the death of a 46-year-old woman who was gunned Down during an attempted Holdup of a Church Bingo game. Clarence Brown 25, and Tommie Powell and Darrell Jones both 31. Face sentence of 25 Yean to life following their convict Lioni on charges of murder assault with a deadly weapon attempted armed robbery and burglary in the february 1979 incident according to testimony Dorothy Taylor was killed during a robbery raid on 200 elderly Bingo players when raiders forced to leave empty handed fired More Len two do in bullets at the players
