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...Hieu translated Kim Van Kieu...
...figure is almost twice as high. Saigon reports that with U.S. air support, its troops inflicted 4,500 casualties on the enemy. Yet as a result of the performance in Snuol, there was enough high-level dismay in Saigon that the task force commander, Brigadier General Nguyen Van Hieu, was relieved of his command...
...scene was the living room of a Viet Cong representative in Pnompenh, the capital of Cambodia. While reporters, photographers and onlookers milled around, a bespectacled man named Nguyen Van Hieu, the representative in Cambodia of the National Liberation Front and a member of its Central Committee, brought off the elaborately staged affair like an experienced master of ceremonies. In a move obviously calculated to encourage dissent against the Viet Nam war in the U.S., the Viet Cong "symbolically" turned over three U.S. prisoners of war to an American antiwar activist, Thomas Hayden. The hope was, said Hieu piously, that...
...prisoners were Sergeant Daniel Lee Pitzer of Spring Lake, N.C., Sergeant James E. Jackson Jr. of Talcott, W. Va. and Sergeant Edward R. Johnson of Seaside, Calif. Only Pitzer and Jackson were present at the ceremony, sitting behind a long table next to Hieu; the Viet Cong kept Johnson in the next room, explaining that he was too sick with dysentery to appear. The three had been prisoners in the Mekong Delta, and it had taken them, said Hayden, a month to reach Pnompenh from there, "under strafing, bombing and reconnaissance." All three remained in Viet Cong hands after...
...President's boyish face and unfurrowed brow belie a lifetime intertwined with the travails of his country. Thieu, whose name means "one who ascends," was born in the village of Ninh Chu on the South China Sea. His father was a farmer and fisherman, but his brother Hieu, 16 years his senior and now his Ambassador to Rome, was a Paristrained lawyer and the family's chief meal ticket. It was Hieu who sent Thieu to school in Saigon and Hué. Thieu had just finished high school when World War II began and the Japanese came...