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...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...
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...
...NGUYEN ANH...
Married. Tran Trung Dung, 42, Vietnamese Deputy Minister for National Defense since March 1955; and Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh ("The Nightingale"), 21, doll-like niece of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Hue, Viet...
Pigneau de Béhaine, and French troops, Nguyen phua Anh reconquered Annam and Cochin-China and made himself Emperor under the name Gia Long. When the bishop died, Gia Long built him a great temple and wrote his epitaph. Some of the Nguyens turned Catholic, remained true to the memory of great Pigneau de Béhaine. The Imperial line did not. It massacred great quantities of Annamite Catholics, including its own distant Nguyen kin, and brought more French troops tramping across the rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from...