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...RIDGE Viet-vet centrist Pa. Gov. perfect, but pro-choice stance may be too much for G.O.P. right...
DIED. PHAM VAN DONG, 94, Vietnam's tough and erudite Prime Minister for three decades during the war against the U.S. and the country's subsequent reunification; in Hanoi. A founder of the Viet Minh and an architect of the communist revolution that drove out the French colonials in 1954, he became communist chief Ho Chi Minh's steadfast administrative workhorse...
TUCKER CARLSON Neo-con reporter held by Viet gov. Freed, your anticommie bona fides perfect
...gets worse. "Intelligence professionals reviewing this case would have to consider whether Ressam may have been a decoy designed to draw attention away from someone else," says Dowell. "In Vietnam, the Viet Cong would often do all the preparations for an attack, knowing U.S. intelligence would pick it up and protect against it, but then not actually attack. If you have a big organization, you want to send out a lot of false signals to stretch your enemy's resources and keep him guessing about when you're really planning to strike...
Then, of course, three years after Ali defended the championship, there came the public vilification for his refusal to join the Army during the Vietnam War--"I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong"--one of the more telling remarks of the era. The government prosecuted him for draft dodging, and the boxing commissions took away his license. He was idle for 3 1/2 years at the peak of his career. In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that the government had acted improperly. But Ali bore the commissions no ill will. There were no lawsuits...