Bernard Fall: biography of Vietnam correspondent

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Robert Cohen - 23 Feb 2007 22:37 GMT

I recall skimming a few of his long articles in the mid-late nineteen
sixties in the NEW REPUBLIC which was then a somewhat farther left
political magazine, and is approx today half free access on the
internet

this book review in the new republic's rival, the still farther left
nation, is a fun, very informative read to me, because i recall
reading negative and favorable criticisms of his lengthy knowing,
gloomy 'nam articles, and that he had actually reported the war in
french indo china (vietnam) in the early-mid 1950s, late 1940s

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070312/parenti

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Ice Storm - 25 Feb 2007 08:17 GMT

what in hell are you contending? That Bernard Fall was
from Venus?

> I recall skimming a few of his long articles in the mid-late nineteen
> sixties in the NEW REPUBLIC which was then a somewhat farther left
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Robert Cohen - 25 Feb 2007 14:52 GMT

> what in hell are you contending? That Bernard Fall was
> from Venus?
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i'm an old sujectivist in that i think whatever in the helle i think

the article itself notes his origin as earth

if there is something to argue here from my personal-type of
introduction, go for it

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Bernard Fall: biography of Vietnam correspondent