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...Tran Van Dai, 18, lost an eye during his few brief months of fighting in Laos. A rice farmer's son, he was drafted out of a small North Vietnamese hamlet about two years ago, even though he was so frail that he was allowed to carry only 80 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, rather than the usual 200. After hurried training-eight weeks instead of the usual six months-he was marched south and told that he was going to fight in a "great war." Last April his unit crossed into Laos on Route...
...trail, Dai was issued rice and dried salted meat daily, plus two pounds of sugar and a pint of milk every 45 days. The officers were regularly issued ginseng root, the ancient Oriental aphrodisiac and cureall. On occasion, the troops would sell their clothing to buy chickens or a suckling...
Over the years, the tragedy of Viet Nam has thrust onstage a variety of characters who strutted and fretted their hour and then virtually disappeared from sight. Among them: Bao Dai, the last Emperor of Viet Nam, forced to abdicate after World War II, resurrected by the French in 1947 as puppet Emperor of Viet Nam, went into exile in 1954 to a more lotophagous life on the French Riviera. Now 59, his majesty lives in France's Midi, still enjoys a playboy's existence and occasionally issues political pronouncements that are widely ignored...
...founding force and remains the sustaining power behind Japan's third largest political party, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party. Its formula for success, both personal and collective, is simple: the relentless chanting of a brief ritual prayer before replicas of the sect's treasured Dai-Gohonzon, a camphorwood tablet inscribed with mystic symbols by a 13th century monk named Nichiren...
...first time I am seized," says Publisher Vo Long Trieu of the opposition Dai Dan Toe, "I will stop pub' lication. I can't afford to lose my deposit, and the government knows it." The triple threat of censorship, seizure and shutdown will force editors to be more circumspect, but most take Decree 007 philosophically. "What does it matter," asked one last week, "whether you have two or three nooses around your neck? One is enough to hang...