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...week after the State Department proposed normalizingrelations with Hanoi, officials there today said President Le Duc Anh would become the first Vietnamese head of state to set foot on U.S. soil since the Vietnam War. Anh, who ranks second to Communist Party General Secretary Do Muoi in the Hanoi hierarchy, plans to attend ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in New York. U.S. officials have been warming to business overtures from Hanoi, but it is unclear whether Anh's visit will carry greater diplomatic weight...
...Anh Ryan of the Asian American Civil Association in Boston criticized the College's housing decisions...
...Trang was an exceptionally hard working student; she engaged her assignments and duties with enthusiasm and energy," said Quoc Anh Tuan Doan...
Finally, the task of remembering Vietnam has fallen to a Vietnamese writer- director. The Saigon on view in Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, recently nominated for a foreign-language-film Oscar, is serene, shimmering and stripped of melodrama. Set in two ominously tranquil periods -- 1951, a few years before the French collapse at Dien Bien Phu, and 1961, just before the U.S. buildup -- Green Papaya is seemingly apolitical. Yet in Tran's family drama one can see a society torn between East and West, passivity and passion, duty and will, ancient rites and modern desires...
...satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both set in the '50s and '60s: Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, from China, and The Odor of Green Papaya, a lovely Vietnamese film made in France by writer-director Tran Anh Hung, 30, and a cast of refugees; both tell bold stories of a child's coming of age. And Abel Ferrara's Hollywood horror movie Body Snatchers, saved from the slag heap of Warner Bros. rejects, revives the old parable of the Pod People with a frame-by-frame savvy...