‘Tired of living in fear’: Three years after Saigon fell, well-educated ‘boat people’ told their story
Special to WorldTribune, April 30, 2025 By Robert Morton, New York Tribune, June 14, 1978 [Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units overwhelmed Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly ending the war. Three years later, WorldTribune.com‘s editor, then a correspondent, responded when Japan’s Foreign Press Center announced that a ferry […]