One morning last week Deputy Tran Van Van, 59, climbed into his black De Soto and headed for downtown Saigon and another day's work as the most prominent member of the southern bloc in South Viet Nam's three-month-old Constituent Assembly. Three blocks from home, his car was caught in a traffic jam. Two Vietnamese youths who had been following him on a red-and-white Honda motorbike roared up alongside and shot Tran Van Van dead with four bullets from a Walther .32-cal. automatic pistol.
As one of the nation's wealthiest men, Van Van naturally had his share of personal enemies. Some...
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