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...DIED. VAN TIEN DUNG, 84, general who led North Vietnamese forces in the 55-day-long 1975 Ho Chi Minh Campaign to capture the city of Saigon from U.S.-backed South Vietnamese troops; in Hanoi. Born a peasant, he rose through Communist Party ranks to become commander-in-chief of the army. Dung penned his controversial memoirs Our Great Spring Victory in 1976. DIED. ROSETTA LENOIRE, 90, affable grandma on the American TV sitcom Family Matters and goddaughter of dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, with whom she started in showbiz; in Teaneck, New Jersey. LeNoire, who founded the Amas Repertory...
Political mysteries don't get much juicier than the one surrounding Nong Duc Manh, Vietnam's 61-year-old leader: Is the new Communist Party Secretary-General the love child of the country's founding father, Ho Chi Minh? That's been a long standing rumor, and Manh managed to duck the question through his 15-year rise through the ranks to the country's most powerful position. "We are all Uncle Ho's children," was Manh's clever, standard answer...
...Saigon in 1975, Manh was attending an Elite party training school for future leaders in Bac Can. After first joining the National Assembly at age 49, he climbed the ladder quickly. It was an ascent aided, some say, by the talk that he was the offspring of Ho Chi Minh and a Tay servant. "I don't know why this rumor persisted for so long," Manh told TIME. Diplomats and local analysts say it persisted because he never convincingly denied...
...Manh's dealmaking prowess is probably his most valuable asset. "He's had to learn the art of being a consensus broker," says Thayer. "This guy is thoroughly working within the system, and perhaps will be more effective as a reformer because of that." Ho Chi Minh himself was renowned for bringing squabbling factions of his revolution together. If Manh can do the same and steer the party toward reform, he may prove to be Ho's political heir, at least...
Capra's movies are the garden from which Americans were expelled, years ago, by their success and power and diversity--and by their bitter internal wars over, among others, Joe McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ho Chi Minh. The films archive the country's grainy common-man myth of itself, more generous and neighborly and decent, and a lot whiter (in a Norman Rockwell way) than America has proved to be, decades later, having made all that money and opened its doors to the world...