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...wanted to write letters," she says between tears, "but I couldn't afford the stamp." Tiana hears gruesome testimony from Amerasian orphans and My Lai survivors. In Hanoi she dances with Oliver Stone at the Metropole hotel and converses with Le Duc Tho, Pham Van Dong, General Giap -- old warriors from an old nightmare...
ATOP A GRASSY HILL OVERLOOKING THE PLAIN AT Dien Bien Phu, where almost 4,000 French soldiers died and nearly 11,000 were taken prisoner 39 years ago, President Francois Mitterrand listened as General Maurice Schmitt pointed out the landmarks: the mountains from which General Vo Nguyen Giap's troops bombarded the fields below, the airstrip, the hilltop positions that fell one by one until General Christian de Castries and his exhausted men finally surrendered on May 7, 1954, ushering in the end of France's colonial rule in Indochina. "I felt the need to pay my respects," said Mitterrand...
...offensive was a gamble by the communist leadership in Hanoi to break the momentum of the U.S. war effort. "The American military was so huge we could not possibly destroy it, so we had to destroy America's will to fight," says legendary military strategist General Vo Nguyen Giap, who served as North Vietnam's Defense Minister in 1968. "And by that measure, the Tet offensive * succeeded." America's leaders had convinced their public that the war against communism was being won at a reasonable cost. Tet shattered that myth...
...visits former battlefields and old soldiers, including Vo Nguyen Giap, the masterful North Vietnamese general. Safer is not awed by legends carved in brass: "The trouble with generals is that they live in the big picture, and Giap, I decide, is a perfect example. Utterly brainwashed by ambition." TV commentator Bill Moyers, formerly L.B.J.'s press secretary, is still "the sometimes overly pious public defender of liberal virtue." Safer also resents coziness between politics and press, the most blatant example being Vietnamese journalist Pham Xuan An. He worked two jobs: one as a reporter in Saigon for TIME, the other...
...Communists hoped their offensive would spark an uprising against the government of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. It did not: the invaders were thrown back, suffering disastrous casualties. Yet for the brilliant North Vietnamese commander, General Vo Nguyan Giap, Tet was an important symbolic victory. American confidence in the war effort, and in the leadership that had promised success, was irrevocably shattered. The images of war -- always shocking, bleak, agonizingly poignant -- took on a darker significance. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," declared a U.S. major in the battle for Ben Tre, a provincial capital...