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Nguyen Huu An, then an NVA major general, tells a different story. He says he entered the Presidential Palace at 11:30, only to find that "the men who had taken the surrender, Lieut. Colonel Bui Van Thong and Deputy Commander Pham Xuan The, had taken Big Minh to the radio station to read it. Colonel The had drafted the surrender for Big Minh, but when Minh looked at it, he complained that The's handwriting was so bad he couldn't decipher the document. So he asked The to read it to him or write...
...TIME photographer Greg Davis and I were in Hanoi for our first meeting with Ho Xuan Dich, director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel. Dich's deputy, Ngo Hoang, had participated in the February 1990 joint U.S.-Vietnamese visit -- known in MIA jargon as an iteration -- to the crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others...
North and South were formally united in July 1976, but for all practical purposes Vietnam still consists of two countries. According to Nguyen Xuan Oanh, twice acting Prime Minister of South Vietnam and currently an economic adviser to Hanoi, the economic infrastructure in the South remains about 35 years ahead of that in the North, despite great efforts to bridge the gap. The differences are immediately apparent between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which is still called Saigon, even by local officials...
...Eastern Europe. But political reforms were emphatically rejected earlier this month in a closed session of the 8th plenum of Vietnam's Communist Party. While the plenum promised to revitalize the party's frayed relations with the people, it also fired an outspoken liberal member of the Politburo, Tran Xuan Bach. That leaves only one liberal in the 13-member ruling body, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach...
...picture, and Giap, I decide, is a perfect example. Utterly brainwashed by ambition." TV commentator Bill Moyers, formerly L.B.J.'s press secretary, is still "the sometimes overly pious public defender of liberal virtue." Safer also resents coziness between politics and press, the most blatant example being Vietnamese journalist Pham Xuan An. He worked two jobs: one as a reporter in Saigon for TIME, the other (secretly) as a spy for Hanoi...