European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse A voice from Vietnam hoping to be heard by Barbara Gamarekian new York times n the 12 years since the fall of Saigon Sui diem South Vietnam s last ambassador to Washington has been a Bil of u Jack of All trades pro Lessof. Writer lecturer and. Lor one two year period a dispenser of pastrami and corned beef Al Goldberg s Coli in nor Lewes Washington. I had to find some Way u earn my living diem recalled. We had a Young 8-year-old son to whom i had to give an education. And i had to try to forget Vietnam because if you Coral med to think of it it would became Loo depressing. His son. Han. Is now studying business and computers a i the University of Maryland and diem currently a visiting professor at the indo Cha Institute Al George Mason University in Virginia has Willen a Memoir of the vietnamese struggle in the jaws of history publish Erin september by Houghlon Miflin. Written with David Chanoff As co author it is one of a handful of books by Vienna Mesa authors published in the United slates. It is a Story Lold by & Man who was at Corner Staga. Diem was a member of the delegation to the 1954 Geneva conference chief of stall to prime minister Phan Huy Quat in 1965, ambassador to Washington from 1967 to 1972 and ambassador Al Large until the end in april 1975. He had been sent Back to Washington by president Nguyen Van Thieu in an unsuccessful last ditch lobbying Effort on behalf of $700 million in emergency Aid thai was bellied up in Congress. While in Washington is had relocated his Wila Kim Ngoc his son and iwo grown daughters. Ngoc Luu and Ngoc Giao. On april 17 he resumed to a doomed Saigon flying out again with his 90-year-old Mother and Bister iwo Days before the City fell to North Vietnam s communist forces on april 30. The memory is Sliff said diem who is 65. As Bui diem teaching a class at Georgs Mason University in Virginia. He settled Down for an interview at Jean Pierro. A fashionable French restaurant in Washington . I thank you Lor Ashing me to come to this place said diem As he looked about at the Flowers and Linen draped tables. I used to come Here As South Vietnam s envoy in Washington he used to do business in such sellings Wilh journalists and with such government figures As William p. Bundy. Philip c. Habib Robert s. Mcnamara Maxwell Taylor and Al the Woodrow Wilson International Center where he first began work on his Memoir. Diem who is now an american citizen and lives in Stockville. My. In a House wish a big american mortgage voices Little bitterness about the brutal manner in which the United slates Teft Vietnam. Perhaps i still feel the anger deep Down bul i restrain from expressing it he said. I suppose it is a matter of for Cru Arcana in is a passing chapter he added bul 1or us we have to live with this tragedy every vietnamese family practically Wilhour exception has been touched by this War families divided Osl or he no longer dreams of a democratic and free Vietnam As he did As a Young boy growing up in a mandarin family of scholars near Hanoi his history teacher was to Nguyen Giap who As gon Giap would go on to Lead the North vietnamese army against both France and the United Stales. I was educated in the French Way and we Learned about the Napoleonic wars and the revolution of 1789," Erma Bombeck Erna some Csc is on vacation. She left behind Soma other Mavorite columns irom the past Ever since the president of the United states started to work out of his Home everyone thinks he can save on bus late and lunches by doing it Loo. The number of people who work part time or Lull time from their Homes now is somewhere around 23 million. I have been doing it for �0 years and i can ten you in is no Day at the Beach. Allol these stories Hal talk about creating an atmosphere Tor business and zoning your own space Are right Oul of Alice in wonderland ii Yonne going to create anything in should be a Chapel right next to your desk no one lakes you seriously when you work from your Home if you worked in a b
