Word: hoan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MOURTADA, 78, diplomat who became Egypt's first ambassador to Israel in 1980, a year after the two countries signed a landmark peace agreement; in Falls Church, Virginia. He was recalled in 1982 after a massacre of several hundred Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied West Beirut. DIED. NGUYEN TON HOAN, 84, founding member of the Dai Viet party, which opposed French and later communist rule in Vietnam; in Mountain View, California. After General Duong Van Minh was deposed as head of South Vietnam's government in 1964, Nguyen returned from exile in France and served as Vice Premier...
...raid was carried out by five captured American F-5 and A-37 jets, flown by South Vietnamese pilots who had defected to the North. Such use of enemy personnel and equipment was not unusual, says NVA Lieut. General Hoan Phuong, who planned the attack. Not only were ARVN forces fleeing precipitously and abandoning much valuable equipment but also some changed sides and "wanted to show their new devotion to us. So many pilots and tank drivers from the other side helped out in the last days." In the case of the air raid, says Phuong, "the idea...
...their international image were not tarred enough by the exodus of some 900,000 citizens over the past four years, Hanoi's Communist rulers have now suffered another blow: Hoang Van Hoan, deputy chairman of Viet Nam's National Assembly since 1976 and an old comrade of Ho Chi Minh's, fled to China, becoming the first high official known to have defected from what had always seemed a remarkably close-knit regime. In Peking last week, Hoan, 74, charged that his country's abuse of its ethnic Chinese minority was "even worse than Hitler...
...Hoan's was not the only voice raised against Hanoi last week. Earlier the regime had been stung by a remark by a member of a delegation of nine U.S. Congressmen who were journeying to Viet Nam to discuss the refugee situation. Massachusetts Democrat Robert Drinan told reporters the refugee exodus proved that Viet Nam was guilty of "one of the most fundamental violations of human rights in this century." The Vietnamese canceled the Congressmen's visit and reinstated it only after pleas from Washington...
...about the life they have left behind and apprehensive about what lies ahead in America. "We are getting bona fide refugees without anything or anybody," says INS Official Don Day at Pendleton. "I never know what will happen to me, only what has happened to me," mourned Hoan Lac, 39, a psychotherapist, who cried softly as she rocked her two-year-old child. "I have many friends in this country, but I have lost their addresses. I had to leave Viet Nam in 50 minutes." Pham An Thanh, 40, once a prosperous marketing manager for a paper and sugar distributing...