Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Tale of Two Daughters
February 1953: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, a sergeant in the French army in Indochina, bids a reluctant goodbye to his two-month-old daughter Martine and her Vietnamese mother, Nguyen Thi Hue and goes home to Central Africa.
November 1970: After years of searching, Bokassa—now President of the remote little Central African Republic and the father of eleven children by his present wife—receives word that the South Vietnamese government has found his first family. Martine, a shapely Saigon shopgirl, flies 11,000 miles to Bangui, her father's capital. Though she arrives at 4:30 a.m., a visibly moved...
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