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Is your group or organization in need of a fundraiser? Easy Dough Up to or more in 30 days or less Call Chastity Rodgers at 776-4444 extension 503 The Eagle Flying Higher every day WORLD Page 12 THE BATTALION Tuesdaii Vietnam war photograpk offer view from other side CAMPUS! 3 Welcome lo CAMPUSi com Your campus portoll Micr HPin Fi* Ectt Vims Feeor«*« 7oo»s AjJtfraft Mn I'wtsm i anpu.'i cam £jC,4Tim?e .jnlcj £jF r **Howa( T! ^Gc easy steps: r Chuck School Email Anywhtro! Email Addr*«*. |jnn:gp I AMU ariu (l.e jo«^fnau.»du; Paaaword: Check My Mail 1. 2. 3. >€]Oon« Log onto Campusi.com Enter your email address Get File Attachments, Fast secure access & more. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The fi nal, frenzied days of the Vietnam War were rich with dramatic images. Pan icked Vietnamese scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy. An American heli copter lifted off with evacuees still try ing to climb aboard. But these powerful images f rom April 1975 — and almost all of the conflict’s best-remembered pictures — were taken by foreign and South Vietnamese pho tographers with access to only one side of the story. Largely unseen to this day are equal ly striking images by North Vietnamese photographers, whose dangerous work enlivened otherwise drab communist newspapers but rarely reached the out side world. A quarter-century after the war’s end, a trio of leading North Vietnamese war photographers opened their musty archives to The Associated Press and re counted tales of working under fire in steamy jungles. Their photos, pulled from dog-eared scrapbooks and frayed folders, offer a dramatically different perspective on many aspects of the war. including the fi nal day —April 30, 1975. The enduring pictures by Western pho tographers that day in U.S.-backed South Vietnam were filled with unmitigated fear of the imminent communist takeover. But Dinh Quang Thanh, who fol lowed a North Vietnamese tank to the front steps of the Presidential Palace, captured a very different mood — throngs of South Vietnamese civilians cheering, waving and offering food to North Vietnamese troops entering Saigon, now renamed I foChi Minh City. "We’d been listening to South Viet namese radio saying there would be a blood bath if the communists took over,” said Thanh, now 64 and retired. “We knew this was propaganda, and I wanted to document the truth with my camera.” One photo shows four soldiers dash ing inside the palace to hoist their Hag in triumph. South Vietnamese troops and government ministers, who put up no re sistance, wear a hangdog look of resig nation, hut there's no sense of terror. The North Vietnamese photogra phers shared the same miserable jungle conditions as the soldiers, and saw themselves as full-fledged members of the guerrilla army rather than indepen dent journalists. **I considered myself a soldier, and the camera was my weapon,” Thanh said. Their state-controlled newspapers never published images that might have undermined the w ar effort. Still, the pho tographers insist their work was an ac curate portrait of the tremendous hard ships the northern soldiers and civilians endured during a w ar dial claimed 3 mil lion Vietnamese lives nationwide. Trong Thanh spent five years work ing along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the legendary netw ork of mostly dirt paths that snaked through mountains and jun gles, allowing communist guerrillas to ferry weapons and troops to the south. When he headed out in 1968, Thanh carried three bulky cameras, 400 rolls of film and processing chemicals. He stored his negatives in a pouch that he wore like a belt ev en when he slept. “The Americans sometimes bombed 24 hours a day. You never knew when you would hav e to run away. Many pho tographers lost their film and cameras this way,” said Trong Thanh, 58. When he needed to move fast, he tossed out food or clothing but never his irre placeable photo gear. America in Viete The Vietnam War was (helm in which America haseverfei The United States got involi 1965 and withdrew in 1973. communist forces captured and the war ended. An estiiraj million U.S. military person!’;; in the war and about 58,0008 20 thousand deaths 16 12 0 '60 President Johnson sent that' ground troops to Vietnam in'i:| number of U.S. military peaked at 543.400 four yea'; cease-fire was arranged in 1973 and the last Americans troops left two months later 600 thousand military perse 500 400 300 200 100 0„ 60 ’65 Note All figures are tor Decembere®| which was tor June, and 1969. wWc Source: Department ot Defense Free Service Zimbabwe violence continue IIARARJE, Zimbabwe (AP) Mobs assaulted and threat ened black workers on white-owned farms Monday and set fire to a tobacco farm, said farmers’ leaders, a continuation of the political violence that has plagued Zimbabwe for over a month. An unspecified number of BookFinder Search the lowest prices TAMU Marketplace Buy & sell anything Win Free PC* Every Month @ w orkers were being treated at a hospital in the provincial cen ter of Marondera, 45 miles east of Harare, the Commercial Farmers Union said. The extent of their injuries was unclear. “It seems the intention now is to intimidate workers,” said Tim Henwood, head of the union that represents white fanners. It was not known what had happened to a work er abducted Sunday evening by the squatters.” “The blast was done by people who wanted to tarnish Zimbabwe inter nationally^ the Aggie v\ ’distantly on wning a eelk a godsend, ones today ar bodiment of eon\ i efficiency. However, it is pn a tie; the abduction and shooting of fannerOaiid^‘ij&tliat many eell April 15 stay ed away from their homes. iers do not fully .Armed farm oceupiers withdrew today from at ' jfflL reS p 0ns jbiIi near Mv urw I, 75 miles north ofl lararc, ireeiiEi! • frjL m , ,1:^,. " h " " l ci y ra iy |iiici cdipiH.,' overnight, 11 en wood said. I T ,. . r .,. unharmed. |s .rrespons.bi Also, the government t * 1c L 10 P° sa ' supporters were behind S^B^^A) to im bomb attack on the officeofZ®usly flawed, we’s only independent ne# Produced two small explosive device shade Jtalls for each shop window of a gallery afc ipus to be given Chen Chimutengwende Information Minister olliees of The Daily News, ^ been sharply critical ofthejo't for not clamping down onp olence. No one was injured “The blast was done by l www.campus/com NetForum * Chat * Jobs * Map * Music * News * Games * Finance * Sports.... Tension over who has the right to Zimbawe’s farm land has raged since armed squatters began taking over white-owned farms in February. Police had been ordered by the government not to intervene in the illegal occupation of land on more than l ,000 white-owned fanns. This morning, police were escorting a convoy of about 45 farmers and their families back to the Macheke district near Marondera. The convoy stopped at each farm to ensure it was safe for the family to stay before moving on. The rest of the about 80 families who evacuated Macheke 6s calls would ius and long di rged to the st ssentially, th the need for lai ce halls, ile this idea o pretty cool, ti al is question; wanted to tarnish Zimbabwe internationally,” said W Minister Chen Chimutengwende. Editor GeofTNyarota said in Monday’s editions th ceived a written death threat last week. The sendeifj known group calling itsel f The Revival of African C0 pj^ 1 ' v| . i '\ j' protested the newspaper’s coverage of political violdiF 0 a 1 10 P 1 “lack of respect” and attempts to ridicule Presidenlf Mugabe. “It is a cornerstone of our editorial policy that di' opinion shall be encouraged, but no one feels safe in cumstances,” he said, adding that the paper would eon’ 1 promote the voicing of different opinions. ^ cA S\udeo/ for recognized student organizations ...the other education *I*assing; the Hatan of Leaders hip* ’ Thursday, April 27 Oerveral Session 7 - 8:15 p.m. Rudder <301 Introduction to Officer Success: “Passing the Raton of leadership” featuring Or. Kiev in Jackson . Interest Sessions 8:30 - 0:30 p.m. Fundraising and Advertising Fiscal WorksllOfXfulfill* requirement) Risk. 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