A member of the Paris Foreign Mission Society, which he led as superior general, the French missionary spent years during the Vietnam War helping refugees fleeing the Vietcong. Forced to leave the ...

The Geneva Accords temporarily divided Vietnam into two distinct parts: the North and the South. This was an attempt made by the French to accept the end of their colonial rule in Vietnam however the ...

“People are talking too much about July 20,” said South Viet Nam’s doughty little President Ngo Dinh Diem. “Dates aren’t important, but action is.” Last week in Diem’s resurgent country, July 20 came ...

VIETNAM is to be partitioned provisionally at the 17th parallel, the north portion (pop. 12 million) to go to the Communists. Cambodia is to be cleared of all guerrillas and left free to deal with its ...