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- DIED. Le Duc Tho, 79, who won but declined the 1973 Nobel
- Peace Prize for his role in negotiating an end to the Vietnam
- War; in Hanoi. A co-founder of the Indochina Communist Party,
- he was special adviser to the North Vietnamese delegation to
- the Paris peace talks from '68 to '73 and emerged as his
- country's principal spokesman. Both Le Duc Tho and then U.S.
- Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were named as winners of the
- Nobel award.
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