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From: wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery)
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Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhhh!
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:41:02 EDT
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> BTW, the book by is by Graham Greene...
> 
> One of my favorites is one that was written in the late fifties and takes 
> place in Viet Nam before the French left.  When I read it the early 70's,
> I had to keep checking the copyright date to be sure it was that old--
> everything he wrote about the French in the early fifties was just
> the same as the Americans fifteen years later!  I don't recall the name
> of the book off-hand; Ill post it when I check my library at home.
> 

It was The Quiet American.

Bill Hery