South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu and Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger gesture to each other as they prepare to sit down at start of a meeting at Saigon's Independence Palace in this Aug. 17, 1972, photo. Thieu, who led his nation in the war that shattered Vietnam and severely divided the United States, died late Saturday, Sept. 29, 2001, in Boston. He was 78. (AP Photo/Laurent)