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...month for a first lieutenant v. about $1,000 for his American counterpart). Major Nguyen Va Le, commander of the V.N.A.F.'s 518th Squadron, knows he has flown at least 2,000 combat missions but adds, "I lost track after I reached 2,000." Colonel Nguyen Huy Anh has flown for so long that he is wise to the cruel tricks of the Viet Cong. One of them is to force peasants into a clearing and make them hold up signs proclaiming their allegiance to the Viet Cong. "The V.C. want the peasants to die," explains Anh, "so they...
Died. The Rev. Dominique Pire, 58, beneficent Belgian priest whose efforts to resettle war refugees won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958; of a heart attack; in Louvain, Belgium. A Dominican scholar, Father Pire taught moral philosophy at the Huy monastery until World War II, when he served as chaplain to the Belgian underground. After the war, he traveled 250,000 miles to find foster homes for some 160,000 displaced persons; established seven refugee villages across Europe. In accepting the Nobel Prize, he reminded the world of Newton's sad observation that "men build too many walls...
...when Ky was Premier in 1966; Mrs. Nguyen Thi Vui, niece of a Trotskyite killed by other Communists in 1946 and a successful law yer with a long record of working for the poor; Vuong Van Bac, a Northerner, a lawyer and a Ky man; and Nguyen Ngoc Huy, a professor at Saigon's National Institute of Administration...
Nguyen Ngoc Huy, an official of the Tan Dai Viet Party: "The Vietnamese people are frightened. Viet Nam needs a real leader, a real patriot. But so far, the Americans have not been able to find such a person. This is because they make a basic mistake-they make contact only with people they feel are leaders, not the people the Vietnamese think are leaders. The trouble with the present government is that its leaders are military men. They lack political ability...
...Phan Khac Suu, 61, the white-haired former Chief of State whose recalci trance brought down the last civilian government, ex-Premier Phan Huy Quat's "Medicine Cabinet" of 1965. A southerner with strong support in the populous Mekong Delta, Suu advocates a system of checks and balances between executive, legislature and a national Supreme Court...