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Vietnamese Boat Person Vu Thanh Thuy, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "In fact, surprising as it may seem, the daily struggle of making a living in America is more difficult to cope with than all of the events we went through in prison and at sea. The reason is that there is nothing 'heroic' about surviving the never ending problems of daily life...
...volunteers, who can speak Vietnamese, assist the teachers by tutoring the students and participating in other classroom activities. "The teachers really appreciate the volunteer efforts," said Thuy Truong, a bilingual teacher at Jackson-Mann. "These educated young people can serve as role models for the children...
DIED. Xuan Thuy, 72, top-ranking North Vietnamese Communist diplomat, a former Foreign Minister (1963-65) and most recently vice chairman of Viet Nam's National Assembly, who served for more than three decades as a spokesman for his country in international forums, notably as chief delegate to the 1968-73 Paris peace talks with the U.S. and South Viet Nam and then as chief deputy to Le Duc Tho in the secret sessions that led to the U.S. withdrawal from Indochina; after a heart attack; in Hanoi. To former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who faced him across...
...abandoned warehouse. The acting is low-key and effective. Fredrich Andre plays the handsome Jules with an appealing and desperate innocence. Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez as the diva, gives the insecure prima donna an amusingly American French accent, an appropriate haughtiness of manner, and a crystalline singing voice. Thuy An Luu and Richard Bohringer (as Alba and her boyfriend) are very good at behaving strangely, which appears to be their primary function...
...obsession, so he surreptitiously tapes one of her performances. But it is another recording-a prostitute's taped confession implicating several powerful bad guys-that involves Jules in a maelstrom of thriller twists. Two eccentric allies help this Candide in Hitchcockland: a roller-skating shoplifter from Viet Nam (Thuy An Luu) and a puzzle addict who chain-smokes Gitanes and practices Zen (Richard Bohringer...