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...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...
Some works don't quite succeed in this respect. Hanh Thi Pham's "Along the Street of Knives" series, a group of arranged, representative story action photos, seems contrived at best. The components of the photo, though carefully arranged, are otherwise empty: a man in a spiffy suit is the American; Hanh Thi Pham peers from around a wall with stage-like exaggeration in drama...
Anne Mackin, an advocate for the MassachusettsImmigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, and NamV. Pham, the director of the Massachusetts Officefor Refugees and Immigrants, also voiced concerns...
...homes on the crucial dike system protecting Hanoi from the Red River, Kiet had to step in and resolve it. "That's still better than the old days," says a Hanoi bureaucrat. "Then, if you were dying and needed a blood transfusion, you'd have to get Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to sign off." Vietnam's leaders surely know that central control will not work in a market economy--and that Vietnam's future depends on loosening up. Still, old habits die hard...
...revenues. Officials from Hanoi are assigned the top jobs at local state-owned factories and trading firms. Even the bulk of the city's electricity comes from the Hoa Binh Dam, 930 miles to the north. "The government can satisfy some demands, not all," says Peoples Council president Pham Tran Truc. "For example, we are not satisfied with the electricity supply . " At which point the lights in his office flicker out. A coincidence, to be sure. But Truc offers a wry smile when asked whether, just maybe, Hanoi had been reminding him who's boss. What the incident also illuminates...