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...that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders by young women posing as the mothers of sleeping babies. And a Vietnamese gang member testified that the head of his crime network was none other than Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier and air force boss during the U.S. involvement in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triads and the Yakuza | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...contradicted its vague assurances of cooperation in the new plan with a refusal to provide the names of either prisoners or children, the U.S. is optimistic that an agreement is possible. Informal talks may get under way as early as next week, when both Shultz and Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach plan to attend the United Nations General Assembly session in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigrants: Forgotten Children, Old Allies | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...Dien Bien Phu to make a decisive stand aimed at checking the Communists. Instead, the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indochina war led to the slaughter of 1,500 Frenchmen and, at home, to the loss of political will to continue the campaign. To General Vo Nguyen Giap, the commander of the attacking forces, who is now 71, the Viet Minh victory was "the toll of a bell heralding the decline of colonialism." The battle at Dien Bien Phu led to the partition of Viet Nam and the establishment of the Communist regime in the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: Where France Lost an Empire | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Captures Bahamas Vacation | 10/22/1983 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Webster A. Stone, | Title: Vietnam Revisited | 10/13/1983 | See Source »

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