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...giving orders to yellow men, car bombs in a Saigon square, dangerous assignations in the jungle. The crew shut down Ho Chi Minh City's busiest square for a week, transforming it into the cyclo-filled Saigon of colonial days. They did the same a month later in Hanoi's Old Quarter, and then the 1,000-year-old city of Hoi An. This time, no one was killed, but all that heavy machinery threatened to sabotage a complex vision. In cinema as in war, size is no match for cunning, determination and stealth...
...DIED. TRAN DO, 78, a general in the North Vietnamese army and former head of the Communist Party's ideology and culture department, who became one of the country's most prominent dissidents; in Hanoi. Do had been under surveillance since 1999, when he was expelled from the party for advocating that it relinquish its monopoly on power...
...album, Jerusalem. Written from the perspective of the so-called American Taliban, the lyrics include "We came to fight the jihad/ And our hearts were pure and strong." Earle said he doesn't "condone what [Walker] did." But a Nashville radio commentator likened Earle to Jane Fonda in her "Hanoi Jane" days. Which means we should look forward to seeing Earle starring in aerobics videos...
...DIED. COLONEL FLOYD JAMES THOMPSON, 69, the longest-held American prisoner of war in Vietnam, who was captive from 1964 to 1973; in Key West, Florida. Imprisoned in the notorious Hanoi Hilton, Thompson was beaten with bamboo sticks, suspended by his thumbs and escaped five times, only to be recaptured. He was held for 3,278 days...
...currently in Cambodian camps, which speeds their emigration to the U.S. But Washington is powerless to do anything for those who remain in the highlands. Y Mphiap, who fled Vietnam last year, says tribes staged the mass demonstrations to attract international sympathy. Overseas diplomatic pressure was supposed to force Hanoi to give back their land, he says. Instead, secret police rounded up protesters and put them in jail. Y Mphiap and 22 of his fellow villagers headed for the jungle. Three were caught and sent to prison; the rest made it to Cambodia. Says H'Mren, a 49-year...