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Dan Southerland served for more than five years as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beijing, as well as for nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent based in Tokyo, Saigon, and Hong Kong for UPI and the Christian Science Monitor. He retired in 2016 from his position as executive editor of Radio Free Asia.
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Remembering Tet
A reporter who was in Saigon recalls the day on January 30, 1968, when the South Vietnamese capital came under attack.