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...person could symbolize Asian Americans, it might be Tiana Thi Tranh Nga. She was born in Vietnam in the '50s. Her uncle was a defense minister in the Thieu government; her father served as press minister and left for California in 1966. Teenage Tiana became an American: "In school, when kids said they hated the gooks, I did too. They were killing our guys." She became an actress and fitness teacher (Karatecize with Tiana). Then she decided to visit Vietnam. From Hollywood to Hanoi, a record of her trip, offers an engrossing take on the images and memories that Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Overtures | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...same was true on the issue of whether the U.S. would be willing to enforce the Paris agreement by retaliating militarily against violations on the MIA issue and others. Kissinger drafted letters, which Nixon signed, making such pledges to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. "We will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam," read one sent in January 1973, and that helped persuade Thieu to sign the peace accord. But Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imperfect Hindsight | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

Antipathy toward the regime in Hanoi is highest in the ranks of South Vietnamese rangers and paratroopers, many of whom have settled in California. In a speech in San Jose early this month, former President Nguyen Van Thieu, now living in London, suggested that if political changes are not forthcoming in Hanoi, the refugees should be prepared to head home, shoulder weapons and seize control again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam 15 Years Later | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...Communists hoped their offensive would spark an uprising against the government of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. It did not: the invaders were thrown back, suffering disastrous casualties. Yet for the brilliant North Vietnamese commander, General Vo Nguyan Giap, Tet was an important symbolic victory. American confidence in the war effort, and in the leadership that had promised success, was irrevocably shattered. The images of war -- always shocking, bleak, agonizingly poignant -- took on a darker significance. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," declared a U.S. major in the battle for Ben Tre, a provincial capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

Former South Vietnamese President Thieu remains "disillusioned," as a former government colleague puts it, over the U.S. refusal to rescue his collapsing government. Thieu, 62, lives quietly somewhere near London, but his seclusion has fostered resentment among Britain's 15,000 Vietnamese emigres. Says Tong Van Tran, head of London's Vietnamese Refugee Committee: "Thieu transferred a lot of money from South Viet Nam. But he hasn't helped, even one pence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: New Roles for an Old Cast | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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