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...really was. The French Interior Ministry said he was one Charles Dumurcq, 32, who had been officially expelled from France in 1974 after a series of thefts and frauds. In India, however, Gauthier used the name Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj. New Delhi officials said he had been born in Saigon of an Indian father and a French-Vietnamese mother. Gauthier is believed to have spent his boyhood in Paris and trained as an engineer in Japan. Along the way, he learned six languages and became a master of karate...
...condemning torture was one notable reaction of the world community to the excesses of the Third Reich. But torture did not stop. The French used it systematically during the eight-year Algerian War. The British relied on torture to gain information about I.R.A. terrorists in Northern Ireland, while the Saigon regime brutally mistreated suspect Communists throughout most of the Viet...
...started a rebellion four years ago against the tyrannical and inefficient regime of the Nguyen family. Originally bandits in the Robin Hood style, the Tay Sons soon gathered enough peasant supporters to challenge the Nguyen armies in the field. This spring they captured the settlement of Ta Ngon (pronounced Saigon), and the eldest of the brothers proclaimed himself "Vuong" (King...
...also the latest area food craze, at least among the elites: Sezchuan-style Chinese cuisine. That's easy at about five different Harvard, Central and Inman Square restaurants. For lunch, the Square abounds in the $2.50-$3.50 meals: The Rendevous, with some fine Vietnamese cuisine downstairs (owned by Saigon's former ambassador to Burma), Bartley's and Buddy's Sirloin Pit for hamburgers, Nornie-B's for reuben and sandwich esoterica, the 1955-like Tommy's Lunch for more conventional sandwiches and pinball, and the Underdog, which restores one's faith in the possibilities of cheap lunches and great American...
...Vatican and Viet Nam, where 2.7 million Catholics are clustered largely in the South. Many fled there following the 1954 Communist takeover in Hanoi, then formed a hard core of resistance in the ensuing war for South Viet Nam. A period of accommodation with the Communists has now begun. Saigon's archbishop, Nguyen van Binh, 65, has promised to reshuffle "the structure and personnel of Catholic dioceses" to eliminate anti-Communist dissidents, and "to teach Catholics their duties to the country...