Volume 41, Number 21 · December 22, 1994
Vietnam: The Bitter Truth
By Philip Gourevitch
South Wind Changing
by Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh
Graywolf Press, 305 pp., $20.00
In the fall of 1992, shortly after Washington lifted the ban on travel by United States citizens to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the writer Susan Brownmiller arrived in Hanoi on assignment from the magazine Travel and Leisure, and was met at the airport by one Mr. Kha, her official guide 'Mr. Kha wears glasses,' Brownmiller observed, 'which is rare for a Vietnamese. Not that their eyesight is better than ours, as a nation, but because eyeglasses cost three weeks' wages for the average worker.'[1]
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