The Nation - News from July 27, 1986
The son of two former South Vietnamese diplomats was charged with murdering them in their home and was held on $100,000 bond. Tran Van Khiem, 60, an attorney and former member of the national assembly in South Vietnam in the early 1960s, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in District of Columbia Superior Court to two counts of first-degree murder. The victims, found dead in their bedroom, were Tran Van Chuong, 88, South Vietnam’s ambassador to the United States from 1954 to 1963, and his wife, Nam-Tran Chuong, 75, a former permanent observer to the United Nations. Officials said both had been suffocated and beaten.
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