Ten years ago a young girl left Vietnam with her family, part of the exodus that followed the fall of Saigon.

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George Esper, who reported on the fall of Saigon during the last days of the Vietnam war, has died aged 79 after suffering multiple health problems.

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The year (1975) that gave us the fall of Saigon, the near-bankruptcy of New York and a collapse in American confidence gave us something good: the birth of Microsoft.

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From there he joined the Foreign Office, and made a distinguished contribution in posts held in Washington, DC, The Hague, Cairo (where he was involved in property negotiations arising from the Suez crisis), Tunis, Brussels and Vientiane (around the time of Saigon's fall to the North Vietnamese).

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