Word: nguyen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four fourth prize winners were given free' 1983-84 Confidential Guides to Courses at Harvard/Radcliffe. They were Daniel Goldhagen '87, Melissa H. Kaish, a graduate student, George E. Light '84, and Suong-Dao Nguyen...
...addition, to complement the extraordinary plentitude and quality of footage, the producers conducted over 300 interviews, 100 in Vietnam. Interviewees include top brass from the period in North and South Vietnam and America, and only former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese ex-President Nguyen Van Thieu refused interviews. Equally important are the discussions with numerous combatants and non-combatants on both sides...
...second installment. "The First Vietnam War," the French fight the Vietminh for eight years only to be soundly defeated at Dien Bien Phu, as a French general pointedly recalls a talk with General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese Defense Minister and instigator of Dien Bien Phu and the Tet Offensive...
...small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed U.S. B-52 bomber, and the T-54 tank that first breached the gates of Nguyen Van Thieu's Independence Palace in Saigon in 1975. At a nearby carnival, the most popular game is the beanbag toss, in which gleeful children win pieces of candy by pelting a plywood figure of Uncle...
RECOVERING. Dang Tuyet Mai, 41, beautiful wife of Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier of South Viet Nam who escaped the Communist takeover of his country in 1975 and is now a liquor store owner in Westminster, Calif.; from a suicide attempt (she took an overdose of Valium); in Manila, while a guest of Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, a friend since the 1960s...