Vietnam Mourns Beloved General

((New information grafs 2 and 4 Vietnam is holding two days of official mourning for wartime General Vo Nguyen Giap, who died last week at the age of 102. Thousands of people, including family, high-ranking officials and foreign military delegations, viewed Giap's body as it lay in state Saturday in the capital of Hanoi. Giap was lauded as a military genius for his guerrilla tactics, which defeated both French and American forces and ended the government of South Vietnam. Giap was ...

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