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...more kibitzers. One day a heavy mist draped the mountains of Binh Dinh and sank into the rice paddies in the valleys below. An ancient Citro?n spun its wheels on the muddy track, in a scene that would bring Fowler to a rebel leader's camp in the Vietnam of 1953. Suddenly Noyce shouted and pointed at a tree line: "Somebody do something about those kids!" Two boys had climbed some bamboo trees and were swaying at the top, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon-style. Very cute, but it ruined the shot. A translator pleaded for the children to come down...
...XAVIER NGUYEN VAN CARDINAL THUAN, 74, Vietnamese clergyman who spent his 13-year imprisonment under the communist regime emulating St. Paul by smuggling out messages to his followers and evangelizing his jailers; in Vatican City. Born into a prominent Catholic family?his uncle was former South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem?Thuan became Bishop of Nha Trang in 1967. Shortly after his appointment as Archbishop of Saigon in 1975 the city fell to the communists, who arrested Thuan as a subversive and imprisoned him without trial. He was expelled from Vietnam in 1991 and spent the rest of his life...
...Aviv in 1948, he sat out the Korean War. But the gambler in him was lured back into the fray in 1954, to work again for Life magazine. "This is going to be a beautiful story," he said as he set out from the village of Nam Dinh, in Vietnam's Red River delta, on May 25, the last morning of his life. "I will be on my good behavior today. I will not insult my colleagues, and I will not once mention the excellence of my work." Eight hours - and 30 km - later, Capa was dead, killed...
DIED. DUONG VAN MINH, 86, Vietnamese general known as "Big Minh," who organized the 1963 coup to overthrow South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem; in Pasadena, Calif. Big Minh (so called in part for his 6-ft., 200-lb. size), believed to have ordered Diem's assassination--with two raised fingers of his right hand--went on to become the last President of South Vietnam...
...Chams, driving them south and scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot-ten. "Do you really mean the Chams once had an empire?" asks an incredulous 69-year-old Tran Dinh Liu, an ethnic Cham Hroi farmer who lives less than an hour from a 12th-century Cham tower near Qui Nhon. "I don't know any history of the nation except the revolution," he says, glancing at the communist People's Committee official who is in attendance...