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RETREATING FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD SOUTH VIETNAMESE LEADER WHO FELL WITH SAIGON LIVES AS THE MAN NEXT DOOR IN FOXBOROUGH
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FOXBOROUGH - The former president of South Vietnam isn't telling
the public his thoughts on the 25th anniversary of the fall of
Saigon, which is also the anniversary of his own fall from power.
Nguyen Van Thieu isn't even answering his doorbell.
Once a world leader, Thieu now apparently wants to be known only
as an anonymous Asian immigrant who waves to neighbors when he walks
his dog on the Foxborough street where he lives.
The dustbin of history, it seems, is a well-off...
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Thieu looks back, ahead From Newton exile, ex-Vietnam leader warns on regime
The Boston Globe
; People who recognize him on the street in Boston talk as if they've seen a ghost, as if he belonged to a part of history that was buried alive. For 10 years, Nguyen Van Thieu was the leader of South Vietnam and the United States' ally in a war that ended in pain for this country and in catastrophe
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Nguyen Van Thieu.(war leader, South Vietnam)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
The Economist (US)
; 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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NGUYEN VAN THIEU, 78, SOUTH VIETNAM LEADER
The Boston Globe
; ... 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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[ The United States used AC-130s... ]
Chicago Sun-Times
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Ex-South Vietnamese leader Thieu dies
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... 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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