US Flight Lands in Vietnam After 30 Years
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Late on Friday, an United Airlines plane will arrive in Vietnam&#39;s Ho Chi Minh City, marking the first time that a commercial American airliner will be landing in the country since the Vietnam War.
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The first US passenger flight to Vietnam since 1975 shows bilateral ties are &quot;right on track&quot; between old battlefield foes who still spar over human
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NGOC LAC, Vietnam -- Former Navy aviator J.B. Souder returned to this northern mountain village this month and met Le Ba Tuc, who had taken Souder captive after he was shot down here in 1972. The two embraced and couldn't stop grinning. ''Thank you for not killing me," Souder joked.
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Vice President Dick Cheney's aircraft made an unscheduled landing Friday evening at an Air Force base outside Dayton, Ohio, to avoid stormy weather on the East Coast.
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United Airlines began service between San Francisco and Vietnam Thursday, the first such regular flight to the Asian country in 30 years.
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Amid a flourish of celebratory music, a group of dignitaries, businesspeople and Vietnamese Americans took off from San Francisco International Airport just past noon Thursday, bound for Ho Chi Minh City.
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With fanfare and an appearance by actor David Hasselhoff, a United Airlines flight headed for Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday - the first direct flight from the United States to Vietnam in almost three decades.
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(CP) - In 1986, Ron Parkes made a pilgrimage to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
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It is not surprising that this presidential campaign is consumed by a raging debate over the war. It is stunning that the war in question ended in Vietnam some 30 years ago.
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The first U.S. passenger flight to Vietnam since 1975 shows bilateral ties are "right on track" between old battlefield foes who still spar over human rights and trade, a Vietnamese spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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For the first time since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, a US passenger jet was on its way to Vietnam on Friday. United Flight 869 took off from San Francisco
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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. _ Families of Flight 93 have sealed a deal on a postage-stamp-size parcel that would be the first tract bought for a memorial to the 40 people on board the United Airlines jetliner when it slammed into the ground near here Sept. 11.
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A UAL Corp. United Airlines flight touched down in Ho Chi Minh City tonight, the first US passenger carrier to fly into Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War almost three decades ago.
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The first two direct flights from China to Taiwan since the end of a civil war 55 years ago landed in Taipei, carrying Taiwanese businesspeople home for the Lunar New Year holidays.
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Air Force One roared into the air at noon on Dec. 19, 1967, carrying Lyndon Baines Johnson on a secret mission. The Vietnam War raged. Johnson was desperate for peace. He would risk a 4 1/2 -day, 27,000-mile globe-circling journey to find it, plowing the skies while awaiting word on his long-shot...
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The first airliner from Taiwan to land in Beijing in more than 55 years touched down in the Chinese capital on Saturday to fanfare as part of special charter flights between the arch-foes for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM - The first US passenger jet to fly to Vietnam since the war ended almost 30 years ago landed in Ho Chi Minh City Friday.