Word: duc
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When the news of the storming of the Bastille reached Versailles, the hapless Louis XVI expressed the hope that this was a mere revolt. "No, sir," replied the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, "it's a great revolution." For the sake of the House of Windsor, we must trust that those advising the royal family at this unhappy time will also be blunt. The national outpouring of affection and grief for the "people's princess" could be dismissed as a form of collective hysteria that will die away as surely as the echo of muffled funeral bells. No tumbrels loom...
RELEASED. PHAM DUC KHAM, 65, Vietnamese dissident who circulated the Freedom Forum; before completing his 12-year sentence; in Hanoi...
...Koppel, we learn, never liked the idea of doing a show on comedian John Belushi's death--especially when the only show-biz "friend" of his the show managed to book was Milton Berle. Koppel's choice for the all-time worst Nightline is a 1985 interview with Le Duc Tho, in which the former North Vietnamese negotiator rattled on interminably (as fellow guest Henry Kissinger fumed) because his interpreter refused to convey Koppel's desperate efforts to stop him. A rare guest who Koppel says got the better of him: Mandy Grunwald, who spoke for candidate Bill Clinton when...
...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...
National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was meeting secretly with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam in Paris. In October, Nixon proposed a "standstill cease fire" and offered a proposal to the North Vietnamese for mutual withdrawal. In three years, the last American troops would leave South Vietnam...