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...DIED. TRAN DO, 78, a general in the North Vietnamese army and former head of the Communist Party's ideology and culture department, who became one of the country's most prominent dissidents; in Hanoi. Do had been under surveillance since 1999, when he was expelled from the party for advocating that it relinquish its monopoly on power...
...disturbing is that the con seems to have required the complicity of consulate staffers, possibly local Vietnamese. Unlike most immigration policies, the Amerasian regulations are designed to be lenient. A visa can be granted to anyone deemed to possess "Amerasian facial features." So it's hard to understand how Tran Van Hai could have been rejected. Dark-skinned with kinky hair and built like a linebacker, Hai, 30, says he's the son of an African-American airman named Mark who lived with his mother in the 1970s. Denied a visa, he went to the consulate to protest-unsuccessfully...
...Tran Van Ngoc was walking to school the first time he saw the planes trailing clouds of white fog. The 16-year-old stopped to watch as the American aircraft circled his village and the mist settled to earth. "It smelled sweet, like ripe guava," he recalls. It was a routine repeated every morning for a year, and soon the village got used to it?just as they got used to a barren landscape, with tree leaves turning black and branches withering...
Dunster House roommates Christine D. Tran ’04 and Kate D. Nyhan ’04 said they each became sick early yesterday morning, although they had not eaten any of the same food Monday or Tuesday...
...pork on Monday, but [Nyhan] didn’t and our other roommate had it but didn’t get sick,” Tran said. “We didn’t eat anything in common so it couldn’t have been any one dish that was undercooked...