Saving the Savior

The Protracted Conflict

El Salvador (“The Savior”) invariably makes me think of Nguyen Van Hieu. Nguyen who? one might legitimately ask. Twenty years ago, I had occasion to describe Mr. Hieu as a busy man. On April 16, 1962, the Communist regime in North Vietnam had broadcast a biography of him. He was described as Secretary General of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NFLSV) and of the Radical Socialist Party and of the South Vietnam Committee for the Defense of World Peace. In August of that year, he traveled to Budapest as vice president of the Association of Patriotic and Democratic Journalists.

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The Protracted Conflict

El Salvador (“The Savior”) invariably makes me think of Nguyen Van Hieu. Nguyen who? one might legitimately ask. Twenty years ago, I had occasion to describe Mr. Hieu as a busy man. On April 16, 1962, the Communist regime in North Vietnam had broadcast a biography of him. He was described as Secretary General of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NFLSV) and of the Radical Socialist Party and of the South Vietnam Committee for the Defense of World Peace. In August of that year, he traveled to Budapest as vice president of the Association of Patriotic and Democratic Journalists.