Word: trois
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Viet Cong Terrorist Nguyen Van Troi, however, there was no tempering of justice. Troi, convicted of trying to kill Defense Secretary McNamara last spring had got a brief, bizarre reprieve when Venezuela's Castroite F.A.L.N...
kidnaped U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Michael Smolen and announced that it was Troi's life or Smolen's (TIME, Oct. 16). But last week Smolen was released unharmed in Caracas, while in Saigon, Troi was tied to a post in the garden of Saigon's Chi Hoa prison and executed by a Khanh firing squad...
...roadblocks, with no luck. The Chevy soon appeared, however, abandoned a block from the leftist-ridden Central University. Then, at 3:30 p.m., the phone rang in the Caracas office of the Associated Press. The F.A.L.N., said the caller, had Smolen. He would be released only when Nguyen Van Troi was released. And who is Nguyen Van Troi? He is the Viet Cong terrorist who was caught trying to assassinate U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara with a planted bomb in Saigon last May. Troi, 17, is sentenced to die this Thursday. If he is executed, warned...
Grabbing the Credit. That put the U.S. in an odd corner. Ever since Troi's conviction, the U.S. embassy in Saigon has been quietly pressuring for his reprieve on the grounds that executing a fumbling 17-year-old kid would do no one any good. Premier Nguyen Khanh was warming to the idea, and Saigon newspapers reported a reprieve in the works weeks ago. As the State Department and the Pentagon size it up, the Venezuelan F.A.L.N. knew that, figured by kidnaping a U.S. hostage it could grab credit for something that was due to happen anyway...