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...image that summed up the moral chaos of the Vietnam War: Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan abruptly executing a captured Viet Cong. Although Adams said later that he believed Loan's claim that the man he killed had just murdered one of Loan's closest aides and his family, the picture became a turning point in American attitudes toward a brutal, perplexing...
...surprisingly likable simulation of America's least-liked conflict. Choose one of a dozen maps (from the Mekong Delta to the fall of Saigon) and log on to a server with 30 or so like-minded players. The server automatically divides you into Americans and Viet Cong. Then all you have to do is capture as many enemy flags as you can and try to get killed as few times as possible (death merely means a 10-sec. time out). U.S. troops start with helicopters (which play Ride of the Valkyries when you lift off), F4 jets and the powerful...
DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a handcuffed Viet Cong captive shot at point-blank range by a South Vietnamese police chief on a Saigon street during the Vietnam War; of Lou Gehrig's disease; in New York City. As a teenager in New Kensington, Pa., he charged $20 to shoot weddings and went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated Press, LIFE magazine and Parade. He also took moving portraits, many of them black and white, of world leaders, activists and entertainers...
...Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Though she never matched the success of her first book, Sagan went on to write 30 novels, as well as short stories and plays . DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a Viet Cong captive shot at point-blank range by a South Vietnamese police chief on a Saigon street during the Vietnam War; in New York City. As a teenager in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, he charged $20 to shoot weddings and went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated...
...battle on Feb. 28, 1969. In charge of a three-boat patrol that was ambushed, Kerry ordered the boats to beach in front of their attackers and engage them head on. Kerry's boat was providing cover when a rocket hit it. Kerry jumped ashore to chase a Viet Cong with a rocket launcher and killed him. SBVT says Kerry simply shot a wounded teenager in the back. Former Lieut. Commander George Elliott, Kerry's direct superior, said in a recent affidavit that he wouldn't have awarded Kerry a Silver Star if he had known the details...