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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month for a first lieutenant v. about $1,000 for his American counterpart). Major Nguyen Va Le, commander of the V.N.A.F.'s 518th Squadron, knows he has flown at least 2,000 combat missions but adds, "I lost track after I reached 2,000." Colonel Nguyen Huy Anh has flown for so long that he is wise to the cruel tricks of the Viet Cong. One of them is to force peasants into a clearing and make them hold up signs proclaiming their allegiance to the Viet Cong. "The V.C. want the peasants to die," explains Anh, "so they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: An Improvement in the Air | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...something still rare in Asia: a marriage not of convenience but of love. As a young officer he had been attracted by a snapshot carried by a colleague of a pretty Delta girl; he sought her out, fell in love, and in 1951 married her. Nguyen Thi Mai Anh was a Catholic, Thieu a Confucian Buddhist, but for her he promised to convert to Catholicism. He finally did in 1958-just in time, his detractors say, to help his army career under the Catholic Diems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Vote for the Future | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...Thieus have two children: 14year-old Anh is in a convent school in Dalat; six-year-old Loc lives at home in the family's modest military quarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. There Thieu, who likes flowers, dabbles some evenings with a trowel, or walks through the compound with an air rifle, shooting birds that are cooked and served to dinner guests. His real love is weekend fishing with cracked crab bait in the Saigon River or in the South China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Vote for the Future | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

Playing Lysistrata. In command of Chieu Hoi is Colonel Phan Van Anh, a stocky, spirited veteran who was himself once a member of the Communist Viet Minh. Anh makes quick inspections of the country's 44 Chieu Hoi camps, followed by a notary public who dishes out piasters for the rewards and rations that in the past have too often been skimmed off by corrupt administrators. "You know," says Anh, "the enemy of yesterday may be very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Charlie, Come Home! | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...NGUYEN ANH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 29, 1965 | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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