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...Perhaps the best single introduction to Vietnam is Fire in the Lake, the noted study by Frances Fitzgerald '62. Other books include: Vietnam: The Origins of Revolution, by John T. McAlister; Before the Revolution, by Ngo Vinh Long '64; War Comes to Long An, by Jeffrey Race '65; Hell in a Very Small Place, by Bernard Fall; and the selected writings of president Ho Chi Minh and general Vo Nguyen Giap...
...Vinh Long, of the Vietnam Resource Center of Cambridge, traced the history of American involvement in Vietnam to U.S. commitments to French rule made during World...
...Vinh Long '68 is head of the Vietnam Resource Center, a Cambridge-based organization publishing information on Vietnam. A graduate student in his seventh year. Long is the author of Before the Revolution, a collection of Vietnamese writings on French rule with an introductory analysis. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese and Vietnamese studies. Long talks briefly about his personal experiences as a Vietnamese, concentrating instead on more general aspects of the war, such as the problems American intervention caused in Southeast Asia and the difficulties Vietnamese refugees will encounter assimilating into Western society...
...Vinh Long '68, a student in East Asian Studies, said that Nguyen Van Hao, then head of the U.S.-funded Rural Development Bank, left Saigon on government orders "because to tell the truth about the money's disappearance might have implicated other high officials...
Earlier in the week, Thieu, a Roman Catholic convert, had tried to appease his opponents by firing the notoriously corrupt commanders of three of the country's four military "corps." Among those busted was General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, of IV Corps (the Mekong Delta), who has long been suspected of pocketing the salaries of some 36,000 "phantom troops"-men who are on the payroll but nowhere else in the military. Thieu also cashiered 377 corrupt officers and dismissed four Cabinet ministers, including his cousin and confidant, Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, who was responsible for censoring...