Nguyen Van Thieu Dies; South Vietnam's Leader; President Failed to Stop Communists From: The Washington Post | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright 2001 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

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.

President Thieu, who fled South Vietnam after resigning the presidency in 1975, lived in Taiwan and England before settling in suburban Boston in the early 1980s. He lived in Foxboro, Mass.

As an Army officer (he reached the rank of lieutenant general), he had participated in a series of military coups in ...

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