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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Snapshot parables from today's Saigon: a young woman (Nguyen Ngoc Hiep) befriends a leprous poet; a pedicab driver idolizes a bitter whore; an American visitor (Harvey Keitel), who sired a child back in the war days, returns to search for his daughter. Writer-director Bui, who left Vietnam when he was two, returns to graft these daintily sentimental tales onto rapturous vistas, photogenic faces and a long history of colonial hurt. Alas, Three Seasons, a Sundance prizewinner, shows little more than Bui's fondness for visual and narrative cliches. A better director will have to make the definitive "post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Seasons Directed by Tony Bui | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for a photograph of one man shooting another. Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

DIED. NGUYEN NGOC LOAN, 67, South Vietnamese national-police commander whose 1968 point-blank execution of a bound Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon stunned Americans when they saw it on film; in Burke, Va. The widely reprinted photo, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams, fortified public opinion against the war. After the fall of Saigon, Loan and his family moved to Virginia, where he ran a restaurant. (See Eulogy below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 27, 1998 | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...late afternoon on Jan. 26, 1967, when the Air Force CH-53 helicopter dropped off Pham Ninh Ngoc and 10 other South Vietnamese at a clearing in North Vietnam, just across the Laotian border. The team, code named Hadley, was supposed to gather intelligence on supply convoys traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but within a day North Vietnamese soldiers began rounding up the commandos. An iron shackle was secured to Pham with a stake driven through the flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTIMS OF VIETNAM LIES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...general counsel Jeffrey Smith told Time. White House aides quickly cobbled together an amendment that calls for the commandos to be paid; it will be attached to the defense appropriations bill now before Congress. For about the cost of a new Comanche helicopter, the betrayal of Pham Ninh Ngoc and his comrades may finally be repented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTIMS OF VIETNAM LIES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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