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- Longtime Associated Press correspondent George Esper was buried today in Uniontown, Penn. As AP Bureau Chief, Esper refused to leave Vietnam when the war there was ending, instead he stayed to cover the fall of Saigon. Esper is shown above in a Jan. 1, 1966, photo with a Vietnamese boy in Quang Ngai Province, south of Da Nang. Esper died last week at the age of 79. Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry sent a condolence letter to the AP’s Hanoi bureau “remembering a ‘kind and caring gentleman and friend’ whose ‘professionalism and tenacity impressed us very much.’ “
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