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...hailed his country's fallen soldiers who "turned a disaster into an epic." Vietnam's military mastermind General Vo Nguyen Giap, 92, shouldered out of the Party's inner circle in the 1980s, made public appearances. The regime even delivered some true eloquence. Said Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem: "When you take a sip of water, you should remember the origin of the stream. The present generation has to remember those who made sacrifices on their behalf." - By Phil Zabriskie New War, Old Tactics GERMANY As the trial of Tunisian Ihsan Garnaoui opened in Berlin, prosecutors revived tactics used...
Tran Thanh Khiem, who is only six, was one of the first off the plane in Des Moines. He was very much alone, temporarily separated from his parents on the plane, and missing his name tag. The air was a brisk 45° F with gusty winds, but his lip was trembling out of fear. Then he spotted his father, Tran Van Duoc, hurrying toward him. They were bused to an assembly center where they met Larry and Carol Bailey, representatives of their American sponsor-the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Belmond (pop. 2,500)-who would help...
...entirely new Cabinet, what he called a "fighting Cabinet," would be formed. The new Prime Minister would be Nguyen Ba Can, speaker of the lower house in the National Assembly and known to be solidly in Thieu's camp. Can will replace the more independent and prestigious Tran Thieu Khiem, the most senior military officer in South Viet Nam, who, significantly, was expected to join the anti-Thieu opposition. Hours earlier, police had arrested more than ten people in various parts of Saigon on charges of plotting a coup to overthrow Thieu. Several of those arrested were associates of former...
Madame Bui Huu Khiem, owner of La Fregate, the best hotel in Nha Trang, with a brand-new $100,000 air-conditioned wing, quickly made her own plans. A 1954 refugee from the North, she turned the hotel over to the Red Cross and prepared to leave on an American flight the next day. "If the V.C. take over, all the people here would point me out as a rich woman and I would get shot," she said fatalistically. "If they don't, then our soldiers who have guns but no commanders might do it. When they get hungry, they...
...Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), who is a former chief of state. Other possibilities: former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky; Au Truong Thanh, a former high official who was exiled to Paris in 1968 as a neutralist; Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the South Viet Nam Senate; Tran Thien Khiem, the country's Premier; and Tran Van Tuyen, an anti-Thieu member of the South Vietnamese Lower House...