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• Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce — Brendan Fraser
• When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into… — Calvin Trillin
• Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare… — Andrew X. Pham
• Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton
• A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee
• In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is… — Lea Salonga
• I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a… — Lea Salonga
• I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when… — Lea Salonga
• During the day on Monday, Washington time, the airport at Saigon came under persistent rocket as well as artillery fire and was… — Gerald R. Ford
• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by… — Nguyen Qui Duc
• In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking… — Martin Jacques
• We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to… — Neil Sheehan

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