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Travel agents said last week that few passengers were canceling flights, despite their increased anxiety. Said Chicago travel agent Carol Peters: "A lot of people see these things as acts of God." But the Rev. John Peter Pham, a Catholic priest flying from Chicago to Peoria, disagreed: "I would object to blaming God for plane crashes when they are really due to human error or some other negligence...
...Connecticut last April, with five friends from a Buddhist youth group assisting him, Binh Gia Pham doused himself with gasoline, flicked a lighter and exploded into flames. The 43-year-old immigrant was protesting attempts by the Vietnamese government to suppress Buddhism...
...Pham's friends had recorded his death with video cameras, then promptly notified Connecticut police. "It was clear," says Sergeant Scott O'Mara, "that they did not think they had done anything wrong." The state saw things differently. All five were charged with second-degree manslaughter, for aiding a suicide, an offense that carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Fortunately for the five, the judge ruled that Pham would have sacrificed himself "with or without" his friends and granted them probation...
...America will help her. "I wanted to write letters," she says between tears, "but I couldn't afford the stamp." Tiana hears gruesome testimony from Amerasian orphans and My Lai survivors. In Hanoi she dances with Oliver Stone at the Metropole hotel and converses with Le Duc Tho, Pham Van Dong, General Giap -- old warriors from an old nightmare...
...region's colonizers -- ravaging its natural and human resources -- but as its foster parents, nourishing a lovely, lorn child with the civilizing bounty of French culture. That, anyway, is Indochine's explicit metaphor. Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s and the women's competing love for a handsome French officer (Vincent Perez), a kind of Lieut. Pinkerton in this Mademoiselle Saigon...