Hints and tips:
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...You might recall that the Office of Strategic Services (later CIA) had been friendly to the Viet Minh (in the second world war), and then later its sworn adversary....
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...The pose had been used before Gros by the Michelangelo-worshipping William Blake, and it would be used again on Géricault’s Raft. It is cold comfort: the human condition at its most pitiful....
...Truong Gia Binh is chairman of FPT, the country’s largest technology company....
...The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Corsair, RRP£12.99/Grove Press, RRP$25 Stories on the migrant experience by the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
...Plus if you’re old enough to remember when VCs were the Viet Cong, it will catch you up....
...The headline of the newspaper Bond waves away at breakfast is about a Viet Cong offensive....
...He previously was a partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly. In the new role, Mr Zweifach will report to Viet Dinh, an independent director who chairs News Corp’s corporate governance committee....
...News Corp confirmed the appointment of Gerson Zweifach, a trial lawyer who has spent 30 years with Williams & Connolly, the powerful Washington law firm hired by News Corp to help it respond to the hacking...
...The excitement engendered by Viet Air’s announcement may help....
...He and Viet Dinh, the non-executive director leading the board’s inquiries into the UK hacking scandal, argued against a shareholder motion to split Mr Murdoch’s chairman and chief executive roles, and defended...
...Mr Pyle recalls his role in covert “psy-ops” (psychological operations) to assail the Viet Cong (but not the press) with propaganda and “dirty tricks”....
...William Boot demanded of the Daily Beast’s foreign editor on being invited to report on an African civil war in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s immortal 1938 comic novel of journalism....
...Eventually just one man, Lt William L....
...He wound up tracking down and speaking to more than 60 of the men, including platoon leader William Calley, who was living on the army base in Fort Benning, Georgia....
...Lt General William Odom, a former director of the US’s National Security Agency, is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. Lawrence J....
...Truong Dinh Tuyen, Vietnamese trade minister, said he hoped his country’s “extensive and far-reaching” WTO commitments would allow its economic momentum to continue....
...By the mid-1990s, it was far easier to find obliging venture capitalists (or “VCs”, like the Viet Cong) than it was to find a carpenter or plumber....
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