World & Nation
Vu Ngoc Nha, 74, a former friend and advisor to two South Vietnam presidents who worked as a spy for North Vietnam during the war, died Wednesday after a long illness at his home in Ho Chi Minh City.
Aug. 9, 2002
Vietnam today named a new prime minister and a new president, replacing the revolutionaries who helped found the Indochinese Communist Party and led it to victory over the Japanese, French and Americans, Voice of Vietnam radio said.
June 18, 1987
Vietnam on Thursday named a new premier and a new president to replace the last of the legendary leaders who helped found the Indochinese Communist Party and then guided the Vietnamese to victory in wars with France and the United States.
June 19, 1987
The United States will open a diplomatic mission in Vietnam this autumn, 19 years after the chaotic evacuation of its diplomats at the end of the Vietnam War.
Aug. 23, 1994
The first U.S. diplomat posted to Hanoi in 38 years arrived Wednesday, but the United States went out of its way to play down his role.
Aug. 19, 1993
Although it denies any bias, the government forgoes attempts at reconciling with ex-soldiers of South, underscoring conflict over past.
July 17, 1998
Re “U.S. Mustn’t Betray Iraq as It Did South Vietnam,” May 3: Quang X. Pham is right on every point.
May 6, 2004
Pham Van Dong, one of Vietnam’s last revolutionary statesmen and the political architect of victories over France and the United States, has died in a Hanoi hospital after a long illness, government sources said.
May 3, 2000
Vladimir Lenin never visited Asia, but in his diaries and other writings he expressed doubt that communism had much chance of taking root in the region.
Dec. 31, 1991
Movies
I was only 8 when my family left Saigon in 1975, and I was too young to comprehend the war around me.
Jan. 2, 1994