Feb. 23, 1968
That picture is lodged in people's memories. Taken during the recent communist assault on Vietnam's cities, it showed Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 37, chief of South Vietnam's 75,000-man national police force, cold-bloodedly executing a guerrilla suspect a thin, frightened, but stubborn-looking man in plaid shirt and pants who had been seized by soldiers in a Saigon street. In no mood to ask questions, the spindly general
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