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...first ambassador to Israel in 1980, a year after the two countries signed a landmark peace agreement; in Falls Church, Virginia. He was recalled in 1982 after a massacre of several hundred Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied West Beirut. DIED. NGUYEN TON HOAN, 84, founding member of the Dai Viet party, which opposed French and later communist rule in Vietnam; in Mountain View, California. After General Duong Van Minh was deposed as head of South Vietnam's government in 1964, Nguyen returned from exile in France and served as Vice Premier, but his reformist views clashed with those...
...beautiful and interesting excursions, the country outside Jinghong provides endless choices. Walkers can enjoy jungle jaunts along the Mekong and through Dai or Hani villages (see DETOUR). The main draw is the cultural diversity of tribal minorities. Predominantly populated by the Buddhist Dai, Banna is ethnically linked to the hill tribes of Laos, Burma and northern Thailand. Other smaller groups in the area are the Hani and Lahu peoples, mainly of Tibetan stock. Known for their hospitality and resistance to assimilation, the indigenous cultures provide a color and individualism very different from that found in other, more monolithic parts...
...feel like walking, rent a bicycle from any of several places in town for a few dollars a day and head out. You will soon find yourself in villages that have largely escaped the tourist trail. Occasionally you might also stumble across one of the scores of centuries-old Dai temples in the area, most of which were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution but are now being rebuilt by monks. If you want more than a day trip, the 1.5 million-hectare Sanchahe Nature Reserve, 48 km north of Jinghong, offers tree houses in the forest canopy for around...
...fired at them again, at point-blank range, and then targeted his sister Shruti as she bent over her injured husband. The final time, he left and returned to pump bullets into those he had already shot. Then Dipendra turned his gun toward Paras. His cousin shouted, "Nai, Dai! Nai Dai! (No, Brother! No, Brother!)" He didn't fire. The bodies of his mother and brother Nirajan were found outside in the garden. None of the witnesses saw their or Dipendra's own demise. Maheshwar heard the sound of a gun, perhaps a revolver, from the garden and deduced afterward...
...nationwide elections for an independent government. But with the Cold War in full swing, the U.S. was furious at the French for setting up a Southeast Asian "domino" to fall to the communist bloc, and set about reversing the decision. And they found a willing partner in the Bao Dai government, later led by Ngo Dien Diem, which had been set up by the French in the late '40s as a palatable alternative to Ho Chi Minh, and which wanted no part in national elections which the communists were bound to win. Both Washington and Diem rejected the Geneva agreement...