Word: van
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Coming only three weeks after the murder of Deputy Tran Van Van...
...specter of an assassination schedule calling for the systematic elimination of the Constituent Assembly's top leaders. Dan is one of its key figures. The articulate, Harvard-trained physician has long been one of Viet Nam's most popular politicians, and in the assembly he vied with Van for the role of chief thorn in the side of the Ky government. A Western-style liberal, Dan has opposed the military's rule in South Viet Nam all along; he has helped lead the assembly's so far unsuccessful fight to persuade the Ky government to abrogate...
...week's end, Dan's would-be killers were still at large, but a Viet Cong who had confessed taking part in Van's murder was in jail. There was much gossip in Saigon about other suspects. But in each case, the most likely remained the Viet Cong, who not only stand to profit from any animosity between assembly and government, but have been on record since before the assembly was elected as determined to kill its Deputies...
...London, when Trova showed them, they were called by one critic "the cumulative image of Man as victim, stereotype, faceless statistic." In Minneapolis, they typified, according to Curator Jan van der Marck, "the modern enigma." Trova himself has said, "The falling man is a personal hypothetical theory on the nature of man. I believe that man is, first of all, an imperfect creature...
Traveling in Tanzania on a National Geographic Society photographic expedition, Zoologist Jane Goodall and her photographer husband Hugo van Lawick came upon an abandoned ostrich nest. Two ostrich eggs left in the nest were under attack by a variety of vultures, which were trying vainly to peck through the tough shells. While the Van Lawicks watched and photographed, they reported last week in Nature, two Egyptian vultures took a novel approach to their problem...