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...late afternoon on Jan. 26, 1967, when the Air Force CH-53 helicopter dropped off Pham Ninh Ngoc and 10 other South Vietnamese at a clearing in North Vietnam, just across the Laotian border. The team, code named Hadley, was supposed to gather intelligence on supply convoys traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but within a day North Vietnamese soldiers began rounding up the commandos. An iron shackle was secured to Pham with a stake driven through the flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTIMS OF VIETNAM LIES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...Shah could be worth seeing for its originality alone. It's not often a world-renown Tai Ch'i master (Mark) joins a gymnastic/hip-hop performance team in a play directed by someone trained as a mime...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Mum and Shah's Oddball Characters, Unusual Plot Keep Audience Engaged | 7/18/1995 | See Source »

...kung fu diva is played by Bow Sim Mark, a world-renown Tai Ch'i master. She is known for her work in transforming Tai Ch'i into a performing...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Mum and Shah Blends Motion, Fancy | 7/7/1995 | See Source »

Placed squarely between Widener Library and Boylston Hall is a gray sculpture that looks like some kind of turtle-lion hybrid. It's Ch'ing Dynasty original, carved before 1821, and donated in 1936 by the Harvard Club of Shanghai...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ugliest Buildings You'll Ever See Are Right on Campus | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...aircraft had reached Bosnian Serb territory. At one point, Admiral William A. Owens, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Lake and said, "Our feet are dry," meaning they were flying over land. The sun was winking through the rugged, fog-draped Balkan terrain as the CH-53s spent the next 50 minutes flitting 200 ft. over pine forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESCUING SCOTT O'GRADY: ALL FOR ONE | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

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