'FASCINATING JOB' IN SAIGON COSTS U.S. GIRL HER LIFE

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 31, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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'Fascinating Job' In Saigon
Costs I.S. Girl Her Life
Denver, March 30 (M1-A 21-year-
old Denver girl lost her life today
while engaged "in a fascinating
Job in a fascinating place."
Barbara Robbins, a secretary
for the United States State De-
partment, was one of two' Ameri-
cans among the 17 persons killed
in the bombing of the American
Embassy in Saigon.
Her father, Buford M. Robbins,
told today of the way the girl
described her work in the South
Vietnamese capital. She had been
there about eight. months.
First Trip Abroad
Asked if his daughter has dis-
cussed the fighting in Vietnam in
her letters, Robbins said:
"As far as the war was con-
cerned, Barbara said very little
more than to describe the weather.
"Her letters were chiefly about
her work, about the people she
worked with and the city and the
people of Saigon. It was her first
trip to a foreign country and she
seemed to find it fascinating."
Miss Robbins spent six hours
with her family here last May
during a brief vacation. She had
joined the State Department in
July, 1963, after two years at Colo-
rado State University.
"She had planned to be in Sai-
gon for a total of two years, the
father said,
"Barbara had talked for several
years about trying to get into
some kind of work that would take
her into foreign countries. For a
time, she considered enrolling for
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BARBARA ROBBINS
training as an airline stewardess.
"Then this job with the Stale
Department came tip after she:
had had two years at the uni-'
versity and she grabbed it."
Robbins, a meat cutter for a
Denver supermarket, said his
daughter always was interested in
secretarial and business work
throughout her high school years.
She liked to swim and bowl and
was an excellent seamstress.
The father said, "as far as we
know," Miss Robbins was not en.,
gaged and had no steady boy
friend. He said she appeared to
enjoy her work in Washington.
The Robbins' only other child
is a son, Warren, 18, a student
here.: , .
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