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From: nguyen@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (tung thanh nguyen)
Subject: Ti`m ba.n
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:07:17 GMT

To^i te^n la` Pha.m Ti'ch -Du'c tru'o'c o? xu' An La.c, Nga~ ba o^ng ta., 
Sa`i Go`n, mo'i qua My~ kho?ang 5 tha'ng nay muo^'n ti`m ba.n la` 
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ve^` e-mail la`:
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hay go.i so^'
(614) 262-1477. Please leave a message, I will call you back as soon as 
possible. Thank you in advance.
From: hho@aludra.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Re: ****** SCV with MODERATOR ************
Date: 19 Aug 1992 15:00:04 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <3398@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>I'd suggest we create talk.politics.vietnamese first and see if the
>political and the non-political discussions could be split off. 

But but are they fighting about politic???
Would the people fighting still want to fight on SCV rather than
volunteering to move over?? :-)))

Just a comment :_)
THanks
H.
 


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: lyxuan@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Subject: Re: [MISC] M&M CANDIES LOVERS.......
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:59:28 GMT

Hey Candies lovers,

I will post the answers today, as promised!
Thank you everyone for their email inquiries 
on this topic!  I liked some of your answers 
alot! As they were genuinely funny! 

HandsomeStranger.........The Candy man can!.....

> Hello Candies Lovers,
> 
> As far back as can be recalled, in my childhood, I have always loved 
> candies. And I couldn't imagined anyone who'd lived and not have loved 
> candies. One of the kind of candies I loved most was M&M's. I loved those 
> plain chocolate M&M's the most! Anyway, I loved them so much that I did 
> a little bit of research into the "How" of M&M's.....
> 
> I have the answers to the following questions. I wanted to see what 
> the general audience's answers would be.  Cheers! Yumm..Yumm...
> 
> So here goes!
> 
> 1. How do they print the "M&M" on M&M's chocolate candies?
> 
> 2. Why are their no seams on M&M's?
> 
> 3. What does M&M stand for?
> 
> 4. Why are there more brown M&M's than any other color?
> 
> 5. How do they determine the ratio colors?
> 
> 6. Why did they take away red M&M's?
> 
> 7. Why have they put the red M&M's back recently?
> 
> 8. What are the color percentages in plain M&M's? 
>    and in peanut M&M's?
> 
> 	Brown?
> 	Yellow?
> 	Red?
> 	Orange?
> 	Green?
> 	Tan?
> 
> There are many mores, but I just want to start with a 
> few! ;-)
> 
> Happy pondering!!! If anyone is interest in knowing the 
> answers to these questions, you can email me. If not I 
> will post them on Friday! Happy eating! Cheers! YummYumm!
> 
> HandsomeStranger.....
> 
> The candy man...Who can take the sunshine.. ;-)
> 
> P.S. Just for kicks. Last one for the road! Why do clocks run clockwise?
> 
> m&m..m&m..m&m..m&m..m&m..m&m..mm&m..m&m..mm&m..m&m..mm&m..m&m..mm&m..m&m..m

Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: vu@bsc.no (Nguyen Vu)
Subject: Rich & Famous
Organization: Bergen Scientific Centre, Bergen, NORWAY
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:32:34 GMT

Hi Nguyen D. Phat!

I'M SORRY that you (all scv's?) understood that way!. The guy (USA) exists!.
He works for IBM in USA, he's here just for some weeks to finish his research
on environments (the air).  The words "..your English is SHIT" he gave Mike is
not about his English, but the way he attacks people, please remember that!.
(The guy actually comes from Canada).

Why should I impress the IBM logo?, it's not my fault that you see the words
IBM 'so big'. It's just a company like others. I don't think it's not popular to
call himself a IBM'er , while IBM's loosing its market.....!!!. But anyway I
DID NOT MEAN to impress ANY OF YOU!. Sorry to all who understood that way and
to Mike Tran as well. ( I'll work at another "LOGO" in Oct.!!).

Mike's maybe a winner, but winn on WHAT?. I knew exactly that I'd many faults
while writting to him, I didn't mind in fact...!!! (perhaps it is the fault!).
I don't like him personly, for the way he "da.y ddo+`i", although he's right,
good and intel., and so on..... but yet I don't feel he has a heart...

Thank you for being honnest with me!. I can discuss with him about VKs, but not
English and "tu.c ngu+?, ca dao", if I use incorrectly English, correct me, but
please don't "da.y ddo+`i".

I'M really SORRY that I didn't keep my promise about that I wouldn't write to
him any more, but I still did. I was feeling uncomfortable is not a secret....

All advices are welcome, I really apreciate!!.

Sin.

Vu~ 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: lyxuan@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Subject: Re: [MISC] I wish SCV is a better forum
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:46:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.180658.7336@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, kimminh@bnr.ca (Kim-Minh Nguyen) writes:
> 	The postings on SCV in the past weeks have disturbed me.
> 
> 	I wish that SVC is a better forum. I wish that those involved 
> would consider dropping the fight. I wish that those involved offer 
> a smile to your opponents and invite your ennemies to join your 
> circle. 

This reminds me of "Ho`a Ho+.p Ho`a Gia?i". Do you remember Linh's stand 
on this issue?

> 
> 	The most difficult challenge is, of course, admitting that
> we might be wrong and take the first step. This is a difficult task, 
> but I believe that we can meet this challenge.  
> 

I could be wrong about a lot of things! But, one thing that I'm most 
certain is that I am not wrong about Tra^`n Tha'i Linh!

> 	Minh 

I will post the result "Xin Pha't Bie^?u Y' Kie^'n" on the 'morrow!
And I promise you that I will be honest about it.

Tru'c Vie^.t aka HandsomeStranger......
From: Thao.D.Vo@dartmouth.edu (Thao D. Vo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Re: [poem] tho* ti`nh
Date: 22 Aug 92 04:16:10 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0d55@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <1992Aug21.144920.9871@news.media.mit.edu>
gt4011b@prism.gatech.edu writes:

> Hy vo.ng nhu*~ng va^`n tho* ti`nh se~ la`m cho ca'c
> ba.n ye^u ddo*`i va` ... mo* mo^.ng ho*n mo^.t xi'u


How grand and benignant is the wish!!  However, the stragic reality is
that many people on this net are devoted to crass demeaning of their
fellow countrymen. What's that Confucius's teaching--He who insults
others insults himself.  Enough psychical energy is lost in these
verbal dog-fights.  May be more shouldn't be wasted in trying to "calm"
them down.  I think they are in their "normal stage."  We have to be
glad that these people don't know each other in person, or else the
homocide rate in America would have escalated dramatically. If we have
100 people in the net who are like MT, then world peace is within
reach.  Just a few thoughts in a lonely night.  Just call me a
philisopher.

PS.  Common sense is not so common.

Disclaimer--Thao did not write this.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: mleventh@us.oracle.com (Michael Leventhal)
Subject: Trie^`u Cha^u - a Chinese dialect spoken in Vietnam
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:08:23 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.


I would be grateful for any information anyone could give me on
a dialect of Chinese spoken in Vietnam, Trie^`u Cha^u (Chiu Chow
in English transliteration).  I am interested from the point of
linguistics and history.  For example, what is its relationship
to other Chinese dialects (comparative features of grammar,
phonology, and lexicon), where did it originate, what is the ethnic
composition of its speakers, where else is it spoken, when did
its speakers come to Vietnam, how many people speak it (in raw numbers
and compared to the number of speakers of Cantonese in Vietnam), and
what is the current social and political standing of this ethnic group
in Vietnam today?  Well, for a start anyway!

Again, thanks to anyone who can take the time to write on this topic.

Michael
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
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Subject: Tra.i he` Lu+?a Vie^.t ky` 2
Originator: daemon@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Reply-To: nguyend@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: N/A
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:27:36 GMT

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: Nhan Tran <tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com>
Subject: NEWS/VN: VN charges Hollywood created MIA "myth"
Originator: daemon@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Reply-To: tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com
Organization: N/A
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:20:29 GMT


08/16

Vietnam charges Hollywood created MIA ``myth''

   BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI) -- Vietnam has blamed Hollywood for creating the
"myth" that U.S. servicemen are still being held in Indochina and charged
American movie makers have "distorted" events from the Vietnam War.
   "The Vietnam war is not completely over yet," state-run Radio Hanoi said in a
commentary. "And the Americans have tried to win a victory through movies in
order to save face.
   "This fact was made obvious when the advertisement for the film  "Missing in
Action" was revealed with the sensational words: 'The war won't be over until
the last American returns home,"' the Vietnamese- language broadcast said
Friday. A transcript of the broadcast was made available in Bangkok Sunday.
   "The effort to revive the myth about the war is totally premeditated," Radio
Hanoi said. "The basic goal of this is to revive those scenes of war already
rooted deep in the hearts of the Americans and then to completely distort them."
   The radio described scenes from one movie, which it did not name, of a
soldier throwing a hand grenade into an underground shelter and of another
soldier shooting a woman with her baby in her arms.
   "These suggest the My Lai massacre," the radio said, referring to the 1968
killing of Vietnamese civilians by American troops. But it said the scenes "have
been doctored to change the soldiers in question into North Vietnamese instead
of American."
   The radio also charged that "the story about American prisoners being left
behind in Southeast Asia would not have become a top-hit myth in the United
States had it not been for a factory, namely the Hollywood film industry,
churning out imaginary stories on this subject...
   "The POW-MIA myth reached its peak with the introduction of the second
installment of the Rambo series titled "First Blood" starring Sylvester
Stallone, who has become a contemporary superman," the radio said.
   The Pentagon says more than 2,000 American servicemen are still missing in
action in Indochina since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the majority of
them in Vietnam.
   The fate of the missing servicemen is a key issue holding up the
establishment of full diplomatic relations between Washington and Hanoi and the
lifting of a U.S. embargo against Vietnam.
   "The POW-MIA myth has had a profound political, cultural, and psychological
impact on American society," Radio Hanoi said.
   "In reality, there are thousands of homeless American Vietnam war veterans
now living on the streets of the United States. They should not be called
missing in action, but rather missing in America -- they are the ones who have
been let down by the United States."

Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: Nhan Tran <tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com>
Subject: NEWS/VN: VN says Perot assassin claim is ridiculous
Originator: daemon@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Reply-To: tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com
Organization: N/A
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:26:06 GMT


08/13

VIETNAM SAYS PEROT ASSASSIN CLAIM IS RIDICULOUS

    HANOI, Aug 13, Reuter - Vietnam dismissed a claim by American billionaire
Ross Perot that Hanoi sent agents to kill him years ago as absurd.
    "The report saying Vietnam sent agents in 1970 to kill Mr Perot and his
family is so ridiculous, it's like a story about James Bond -- 007," the foreign
ministry said.
     The ministry also denied claims made by Perot in Washington that Hanoi kept
some American prisoners after the Vietnam War. It said all prisoners were freed
in 1973 after Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accord.
    The ministry again firmly denied it was still holding Americans captive.
"The recent reports saying Vietnam is still holding American prisoners of war
are fabrications with ill intent."
    Perot told a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday he was convinced that Laos,
along with Vietnam, kept U.S. prisoners to help obtain $3.25 billion in
reconstruction aid they believed President Richard Nixon had promised.
    Richard Armitage, the U.S. Defence Department's coordinator on the issue
during the 1980s, told the Senate committee on Wednesday he believed Americans
were left behind in Indochina.
    Armitage said Nixon's administration was so eager to get out of the Vietnam
War that it prematurely closed the book on evidence that U.S. prisoners were
still being held in Laos.
    Diplomats, businessmen and aid workers based in Vietnam, including several
who have travelled extensively and some who were here during the war, say they
think U.S. rumours of American servicemen still being held are unfounded.
    U.S. teams of military and civilian experts investigating the fate of
missing American servicemen have said they found no evidence American prisoners
were left behind.
From: hho@aludra.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: Re: ****** SCV with MODERATOR ************
Date: 20 Aug 1992 07:26:52 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <3403@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>  Under USENET rules, there must be 2-3 weeks of discussion before any
>vote can occur, so I'd suggest that the RFD get posted soon.  Having a
>formal RFD might also help focus discussion here in SCV.

Ok, since there really seems to be a need for a political group,
I propopes that instead of talk.politic.vietnamese,
should we create soc.culture.vietnamese.politics???

So any system that carry soc.culture.vietnamese.* will carry the
political group also?

H.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
From: "TuyetTrang Le" <LTRANG@BLDVM4.VNET.IBM.COM>
Subject: Tho+: Denver
Originator: daemon@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Reply-To: LTRANG@BLDVM4.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: N/A
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:38:38 GMT

Tam ca Nguye^.n o+'i o+i,

Co' ngu+o+`i che^ Denver ne`, help tt vo+'i ...

tt

> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:51:42 PDT
> To: ltrang@bldvm4.vnet.ibm.com
> Subject: Denver!
>
[...]
>
> But here is my debut poem...hope you like it...
>
> Tuye^'t tra('ng phu? nga^.p ca? Denver
> Xu+' na`y co' ngu+o+`i tha^.t la(~ng lo+
> Tro+i` la.nh !  Sao ti`nh ngu+o+`i cu~ng la.nh  ????
> Quen Denver ! Ta nghi~ tha^.t da.i kho+`  ......
>
[....]
>

Ba^`u tro+`i Denver trong xanh hie^`n di.u
Nu'i mo^.ng mo+ khie^'n ngu+o+`i tha^?n tho+`
Tro+`i tuy la.nh, nhu+ng ti`nh no^`ng a^'m
Quen Denver ! Sao nghi~ la` da.i kho+` ?!

tt


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From: ahnguyen@crdec8.apgea.army.mil (Anh huu Nguyen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
Subject: [Anh huu Nguyen:  thu yeu cau.]
Date: 18 Aug 92 12:01:54 GMT
Organization: Saigon.COM Public Access UNIX(tm), Sunnyvale CA  (408)739-1520


----- Forwarded message # 1:

Date:     Mon, 17 Aug 92 16:03:46 EDT
>From:     Anh huu Nguyen  <ahnguyen@crdec8.apgea.army.mil>
To:       nvtran@crdec8.apgea.army.mil
cc:       nvtran@crdec8.apgea.army.mil, ahnguyen@crdec8.apgea.army.mil
Subject:  thu yeu cau.

Xin qui vi vui long goi den cho chung toi 
bai tho ma chung toi da duoc doc nhung khong
con nho ro. 

Day la mot doan cua bai tho:

    - Mai nay co the khong con nua,
      Hai dua hai phuong lanh bong doi.
      Con lai co chang la noi nho,
      Chi la buon tham giong nhau thoi.

Neu qui vi nao da doc duoc bai tho nay va con giu lai.
Xin vui long chuyen tiep den chung toi
Xin thanh that cam on nhieu.

Identifications: Nvtran, Ahnguyen

Cam On nhieu.

Huu Anh.


----- End of forwarded messages
From: Nhan Tran <tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com>
Subject: NEWS/VN: VN gets 1sts US commercial shipment
Originator: daemon@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Reply-To: tran@peora.sdc.ccur.com
Organization: N/A
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:36:45 GMT


08/11

VIETNAM GETS FIRST U.S. COMMERCIAL SHIPMENT

    HANOI, Aug 11, Reuter - Vietnam has received its first commercial ship
container from the United States since the war -- filled with American books on
business, accounting and economics, a U.S. businessman said on Tuesday.
    The shipment of more than 35,000 books, worth $70,000 and including many
American textbooks, was bought by Fahasa, a state-run bookstore in Ho Chi Minh
City.
    Floyd Holcom, whose management consultant and business information company
arranged the sale, said bookstores in Vietnam were hungry for American
publications.
    "The major need here is for textbooks and international business and
economics books. They sell really quickly," he told Reuters by telephone from Ho
Chi Minh City.
    A trade embargo that Washington imposed on Hanoi in 1964 and extended to a
reunified Vietnam when the communists defeated the Saigon government in 1975
bans nearly all U.S. business transactions with Vietnam.
    But Holcom, a managing partner of the IBIS Group, said Powell's Books of
Portland, U.S. was able to sell the container due to an exemption in the
embargo.
    Washington, which has no diplomatic relations with Vietnam and classifies it
as an enemy country, began to ease the embargo last year by allowing U.S.
commercial transactions of a humanitarian nature and direct telecommunication
links with Vietnam.
    The shipment arrived in Ho Chi Minh city on Monday.
    Holcom said Vietnamese authorities apparently initially denied Fahasa
permission to import the books, but later gave approval.
    Bookstores in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city that used to offer texts on Marxism
are now filled with books on international finance, accounting practices and how
to learn English.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese