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The Communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh. He was a revolutionary leader that wanted Vietnam's independence from foreign countries. He was born in 1890 and died in 1969. After the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War, it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City for this leader.
Anh Thu was born in 1936, in Quang Binh, North Vietnam (now Vietnam).
Miriam Leader died on October 5, 2012, in North Hampton, New Hampshire, USA.
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Nguyen Van Thieu(1923-2001) president of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (1967-75). Thieu played a significant part in the 1963 coup against Ngo Dinh Diem and held various government offices before being elected president in 1967 and again in 1971. Throughout the period of escalation of the Vietnam War, the United States supported his authoritarian regime. Thieu, who had participated only reluctantly in the 1973 peace agreements, held onto power and resigned only when communist troops from North Vietnam surrounded the southern capital. He left the country shortly afterward and eventually settled in England.