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Ex-South Vietnamese leader Thieu dies
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BOSTON--Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who
led his nation in the war that tore apart his homeland and bitterly
divided the United States, then was forced to step down as North
Vietnamese troops closed in, has died. He was 78.
Thieu collapsed Thursday at his home in suburban Foxboro, Mass.,
and died late Saturday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in
Boston, hospital spokesman Jerry Berger and cousin Hoang Duc Nha said
Sunday.
Thieu had been in a coma and...
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; ... has some kind of respect because he told us that the communists are very tricky, and they will break promises," said Tuan Q. Tran, owner of Kimmy Pharmacy in Dorchester and a former soldier. "In the end it became true." In a rare interview with the Globe ...
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; Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam's war leader, died on September 22nd, aged 76 IN APRIL 1975 Vietnam's war was swiftly coming to an end. The communists were poised to enter Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital. Nguyen Van Thieu, who had led the South for a decade, said, We will fight to the last
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; ... separated from decisions of the American government, said Chau Tran, former secretary general of South Vietnam's House of Deputies ... failures were associated with the American leaders at the time, Tran said yesterday. He must be remembered as a kind person, a good ...
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; ... responsibility," Ky said Sunday in Los Angeles. He said he spoke with Thieu's wife and family by telephone Saturday after receiving news of Thieu's death. The two had not seen each other since they fled South Vietnam in 1975, and Ky declined to comment further ...
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; ... Vietnamese community leaders and a hospital spokesman. "It's sad news," said Binh Nguyen, vice president of the Vietnamese Community ... Vietnamese people into a more miserable condition." Yesterday, as news of his death was announced at a Vietnamese Mass at St. Peter ...
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Letters of Intent
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; Nguyen Van Thieu, 78, the soldier and politician who as president of South Vietnam led that nation for nearly a decade in a long, bloody and losing war that all but destroyed his country and deeply scarred our own, died Sept. 22 at a hospital in Boston. The cause of death was not disclosed.
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