Vietnamese celebrate anniversary of war’s end
WOULD
HOC IH MINH CITV Vietnam (AP)
1 wenty years ago. ( nmmumst tankt rolled
down a broad >v«nn« and smashed
through the gates of the South Viet names#
presidential paUu* to sei/e power and
reunite the country
On Sunday, mow than 10.000 soldiery, students and
« hildrrm paraded down the vime broad. leafy boulevard,
carrying flowers and balloons and posing for pictures
with their former enemies Americans to celebrate
the anniversary of the war’s end.
No rts rilninatioie. were heard against the ! ’nited Slates
with w hich Vietnam now wants diplomatic and trade tie-.
Mayor I nning Ian Sang opened the i erenuuiH*s by pr os
ing the patriotism that led so mam to their death hut nev
er even mentioned the United States
North Vietnam seized power from the last remaining
officials of the l' S allied gov eminent on April it), t1 c' a
ending a war that cost more than t million lives Most
Americans had fled the city only hours earlier in a des
perate helii opter evacuation
On Sunday Vietnamese si rambled to have their pu
tun*s taken with Amerii an journalists and tourists, .md
once past the reviewing stand soldiers flashed pe n e signs
and thumbs up at an Amerii an veteran with a camera
"It was like they Were happy just to see me -.aid left
edrick of Tal w Fla., who had part of his right
legbloyvn tiyvav in Iftttft bv a mine I look at it detai bed.
a-, a i elehratum ol tliei: independent e I low i mild I hold
a grudge?"
JJ
Ms sole wish is to keep the peace in this
land I'm so afraid that one das mv son
and daughter wilt have to fight a *sar again I
would do anything to present that
The friendliness is mure than just official nolics lu
many Vietnamese. A merit an* • tHtiing lint k represent th©
return of eorntnen e and tourism and revival of normal
ties with the West after years of relative isolation
Behind the smiles however. Vietnamese emotions run
deep about a war that set brother against brother
l his i eiobration is for the winners said a former
southern army officer surnamed "I ran, one of man\ still
angry over tin* punishment meted out to them by the vie
torious North after
Tven some (Communists question whetht*r their lead
ers threw away lives no«*dlesHly in open attm kx against
tin* mighty I -s> military mm bine sill h as the lUfgt l et
offensive A f.«a< tier burst into tears when asked about
her memories of the war. explaining that maiu relatives
fought in the war and not all t nine bat k
In like in the United Status whew the war has been
openly and hotly debated, the Vietnamese have never
- NGUYEN VAN XICM
A Coevnun*st guentia duno$ wst
been allowed such i alharsis
Hut across the sp<s tnim of political v iewv Vietnamese
young ami old wcm emphatii m agreement that they nm
or want uoothiT war
Never never «itl Tran. >t No urns dares to say
that terrible word "
Nguyen \ ui Xii h, fit). used to sot tmohy traps lor Amor
a an soldier-, as a (ntmminist guerrilla Mv soli- wash
is to keep tin- jnsii i> in this land," he said Tin so afraid
that one das ms son and daughter will have to light a war
again I w ould do anything to prevent that
Mayor Sang s spits h emphasized the ui hiovenionts ot
peai espis tally the new hurst of is onouiii development
in Ho (‘.hi Miuh C dtv i ailed Saigon before to'. Viol
mini's w onomv slagnated for the first decade after remit
Hi alum, hut free market reforms sira e the late 1'tttOs have
brought marked new prosperity
That was redo* tml m die lav ishness ot the anniversary
< elebralions, which residents said were the biggest and
most lighthearted ever
Although hundreds of soldiers and militia man bed in
tin- parade, there were no tanks or other armaments, and
most of the man hers were < ivibans who waved tiny |ia|Mir
Vietnamese flags flowers or balloons
Most .-I the .its ■ V million residents i mild only watch
the parade on television \s is i ommoii for sm h events
in Vietnam the parade route streti hed only three long
hliM k-. and tlie sidelines were t ompletely tilled with par
ticipants awaiting their turn to march.
Survivors, rescuers solemnly
remember liberation of Dachau
1)A< HAl . Germany (AP)
On a killim; giound here N.i/.i
Ss men murdered inmntes lor 12
veers, survivors and theirGl res
inters solemnly marked the Midi
anniversary Sunday of the lib
••ration of Nazi Germany's first
concentration camp
During prayer services and
speeches in a steady ram. they
said fascism's • rimes must nev
er be repeated its victims never
forgotten.
"Never again fascism, never
again war, never again Dachau.'
said Max Mannhriiner, a 7a-year
old ( Ve< h-horn lew who survived
the camp.
Over 30.000 inmates died here
murdered, worked to death or
simply allowed to succumb to
disease When 1' S Army units
liberated the camp, they found
railcars full of corpses and bod
ies stacked like cord wood out
side the crematorium Us-ause the
SS had run out of coal to burn
them.
Some 2,000 people from at
least U'> countries survivors
and their families returned for
the half century anniversary
along with ft*) t! S veterans and
their family members They wen*
hosted bv the Havanan state gov
eminent and activists, who
fielieve in keeping alive the mem
ory of wartime atrocities
Sheltering themselves with
umbrellas, a column of survivors
walked past uatchtowers and
now-vacant plots where filthy
barrai ks had stood
The procession moved past
sites where guard dogs ripped
prisoners apart and past the moat
surrounding the t amp where nth
ers were shut dead
The survivors went to the cre
matorium. where SS guards
hanged prisoners from hooks and
then threw them into the ovens
The head of Germany's Jewish
commumtv, Ignat/ Buhls,
thanked the American lilieroiors
of Dachau Among the c amp's
survivors was the woman who
would Ix’t utile Ins wife
We bitterly resent those
whose arrogance imposed their
evil on humanity, said John
Mi Govern nt I'olrdo. Ohio. pres
ident ot die -t'2m! Rainbow Dive
sion Veterans' Association. The
veterans group, he added, dis
tinguished clearly between the
N,i/.i war criminals anil IihI.iv s
dentin r.itn Germany
If is only by being aware of
past »t\< esses and usurpation of
individual rights, vividly demon
strated by 12 years of twrfwrisin
at Dachau, that the ever present
throats to your own liberty i an lie
thwarted," Mt Govern said
Bavarian stole Gov, Kdmund
S tot her told the survivors and
sev eral thousand (airmans.' I
ashameil that the » runes against
those people wore jnTjkitrated by
and in the name of Germans ”
Adolf Hitler's political oppo
nerits were the first to !*• mart-had
through Dat haii s gates on Mart h
22. t‘i t 1, a few weeks after he
came to power They were fol
lowed by i lergvmen, the handi
topped. homosexuals Jews. Gvp
sms. resistance fighters and pits
oners of war
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