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OBITUARIES On the web New Mexico news at ABQjournal.com A LBUQUERQUE OURNAL RIDAY EPTEMBER 22,2006 D8 ICHARD YLE A ND ARGIE ASON The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam Pham Xuan An, who led a remarkable and perilous double life as a communist spy and a respected reporter for Western news organizations during the Vietnam War, died Wednesday at age 79. An, who suffered from emphysema, died at a military hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, his son, Pham Xuan Hoang An, told The Associated Press. An had been in and out of consciousness since being hospitalized in July and fell into a coma days before he died, a doctor at the hospital said. wife and four children were at his bedside when he died, his son said. An had lived in the city, formerly known as Saigon, since South Vietnam fell to North Vietnamese forces on April30, 1975.

In the history of wartime espionage, few were as successful as An. He straddled two worlds for most of the 15-year war in Indochina as an undercover communist agent while also working as a journalist, first for Reuters news service and later for 10 years as Time chief Vietnamese reporter a role that gave him access to military bases and background briefings. He was so well-known for his sources and insight that many Americans who knew him suspected he worked for the CIA. Before Saigon fell to the com- munists, An worked to help friends escape, including South former security chief who feared death if he was found by northern forces. An later revealed his true identity as a Viet Cong commander but said he never reported any false information or communist propaganda while in his role as a journalist.

In a 2000 interview with The Associated Press, An said he always had warm feelings for his press colleagues and for the United States, where he attended college at Fullerton, Calif. But deep down he remained a in the communist cause as the best way to free Vietnam of foreign control. fought for two things independence and social he said. political and military contacts made him an essential source for other Vietnamese reporters working for foreign news organizations. He was known as the soft-spoken, chain-smoking oracle of as the Saigon rumor mill was called.

But few, if any, suspected he was a communist spy. Former media colleagues expressed mixed feelings, from bemusement to a sense of betrayal, after An revealed in the 1980s that he had been a spy. Outside critics vilified An for his role in espionage activities that may have led to the deaths of many Americans and South Vietnamese. But most of ex-colleagues refrained from criticizing his deception. ever there was a man caught between two worlds, it was An.

It is very hard for anyone who did not serve in Vietnam in those years to understand the said David Halberstam, who covered the early years of the war for The New York Times. Stanley Karnow, a former Time-Life correspondent in Asia and author of the seminal 1983 book, A Histo- said that, despite his secret role, An was always reliable. was struck by how much he knew and was willing to Karnow said. said later that his function as a spy was not disinformation, it was to gather the best info he could for them (the Viet An, by his own account, was born near Saigon and at age 16 joined a nationalist movement that later became the communist Viet-Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh. Following independence in 1954, he served as an aide to U.S.

intelligence officer Col. Edward Lansdale, the. Lansdale was believed to be the model for a main character in Graham novel, Quiet Vietnamese Reporter Was Communist Spy AN: fought for two things independence and social RED ARBASH The Washington Post Joe Glazer, the troubadour of the U.S. labor movement who performed, composed and collected the songs of work and protest for 60 years around the globe, died of lymphoma Sept. 19 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md.

He was 88. Glazer performed over a lifetime at countless union rallies and conventions, at civil rights marches, at campaign rallies for Democratic Party candidates at all levels and at hundreds of civic events in the Washington area, where he lived most of his adult life. His songs were meant to rouse and they did. With his booming baritone voice, a thumping guitar, a broad infectious smile and a natural exuberance, Glazer intended to light up the hall and he did. He was in constant demand well into his 80s and found it hard to turn down an invitation, whether for a crowd of thousands or a gathering of friends, for anniversaries or, in later years, for memorial services.

Glazer wrote three songs that became labor classics: Mill Was Made of and Old to He recorded more than 30 albums and became a leading collector, publisher and historian of labor and protest songs, helping establish the Labor Heritage Foundation in Washington. His recordings, along with those of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Almanac Singers, among others, are now included in the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Glazer made his living as a labor educator for two trade unions and the U.S. Informa- tion Agency, which dispatched him to Mexico during the administration of President Kennedy. But these were his as he said.

His fame came from his life in music, which began incongruously on Lower East Side when the son of Jewish immigrants developed a love for the cowboy music he heard on 1940s radio, which inspired him to order a $5 guitar and learn to play and sing. He would become an accomplished guitarist, performing with jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd, among others. After graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Glazer used his ability to sing and play to help land a job with the Textile Workers Union of America, which was looking for someone to boost the morale of striking millworkers on picket lines across the South and New England. The workers, in turn, inspired his song writing. On the lines and at union rallies, particularly in the Bible Belt, he heard the tunes of traditional Christian hymns converted into labor anthems just by substituting a few lyrics.

are climbing became are building a strong for example. Another hymn identified with Glazer in the 1950s was the union version of Shall derived from Charles 1900 hymn, Overcome Some which, by the 1960s, became the anthem of the U.S. civil rights movement. Survivors include his wife, of Chevy Chase, three children, Emily Glazer of Silver Spring, Patti Glazer of Asheville, N.C., and Daniel Glazer of Northbrook, and four grandchildren. Musician GaveVoice to Labor Movement Joe Glazer ATTIAS AREN The Associated Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden Oscar-winning filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was legendary director Ingmar cinematographer of choice, died Wednesday after a long illness, his son said.

He was 83. Nykvist died at a nursing home where he was being treated for aphasia, a form of dementia, said his son, Carl- Gustaf Nykvist. Nykvist won Academy Awards for best cinematography for the Bergman films and in 1973 and and in 1982. sense of lighting and camera work made him a favorite of after their first collaboration on the 1954 movie and which began a partnership that lasted nearly 30 years. with Ingmar, he created movie history with those lighting said Carl-Gustaf Nykvist, who directed the 2000 documentary Keeps Me about his father.

was called master of because of the moods and atmospheres he could create with light. It was a near impossibility to create the moods he Nykvist also worked on fellow Swede Lasse Eating Gilbert and did several movies with Bergman fan Woody Allen. His last film was in 1999. Nykvist was somewhat of a father figure for Hallstrom told Swedish news agency TT. wife, Ulrika, died in 1982.

In addition to his son, he is survived by his daughter- in-law, Helena Berlin, and grandchildren Sonia Sondell and Marilde Nykvist. Cinematographer Won 2 Oscars Sven Nykvist NYKVIST: Known as master of Henri Jayer Winemaker PARIS Henri Jayer, a master of supremely concentrated, immaculately balanced pinot noir who was viewed by connoisseurs to be the finest Burgundy winemaker of his generation, has died, his daughter said Thursday. He was 84. Jayer died Wednesday at a medical clinic in the eastern city of Dijon after a long battle with prostate cancer, said his daughter, Dominique Rolin. She spoke by phone from her home in the nearby village of Vosne Romanee, where he made lush, seductive pinot noir from such renowned grand cru vineyards as Richebourg and Echezeaux.

Great vintages of these wines now sell for thousands of dollars per bottle at auctions. The American wine critic Allen Meadows, who reviews Burgundies on his Web site www.burghound.com, said Jayer was the most famous Burgundian winemaker as importantly, he unquestionably has had the greatest impact and influence among generation of Burgundian Meadows wrote on the Mark Bulletin Board on www.erobertparker.com. Fernando Rivera Law officer TAOS Fernando Rivera, who was chief of the Taos Police Department from 1972 to 1977, died Sunday. He was 63. Rivera was a Santa Fe police officer from 1968 to 1972.

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