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Joanne Sokoloski, the county's chief of protocol, was understandably tacit when I tried to grill her about her role in facilitating Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet's visit to Dana Point on Friday and Saturday. She'd been down that road in 2003, when she helped host a trade event in the county Hall of Administration for Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Khoan Vu. It was a fairly low-key event, but word leaked out and there were suddenly three dozen protesters outside with signs and South Vietnamese flags and an effigy of Ho Chi Minh.

"I'm about trade, not politics," she told me with her trademark diplomacy last week. But for hundreds of others at least for Vietnamese-Americans it was very much about politics.

County Supervisor Janet Nguyen paid for one of the buses that shuttled protesters from Little Saigon to the St. Regis resort, where President Nguyen was leading the trade mission. Nguyen and her staff were out there protesting too. And, while there were criticisms that she wasn't taking a clear position, she was very clear about her objections in a letter written to Secretary of State Condi Rice.

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• East Lansing Kiwanis Club, 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., MSU Union Huron Room, Grand River Avenue and Abbott Road, East Lansing. Speaker: Liz Sweitzer on East Lansing's centennial. Info: Ken Dimoff, 655-3099 or Chet Lewis, 351-6144 or www.kiwanisofel.org.

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• East Lansing Rotary, 12:15 p.m., University Club, 3435 Forest Road, Lansing. Cost: $15. Program: "The Virtuous Physician," MSU College of Human Medicine ethics curriculum by Fathers Jake Folio and Mark Inglot, of St. Johns Student Parish. Reservations and info: Noah Smith, 719-5653

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Sand jar craft for ages 4-16, 2 p.m., Evesham Library, 984 Tuckerton Road. Call (856) 983-1444 to register.

Hill Philly ride, 55 miles, B pace, A terrain, sponsored by the Outdoor Club of South Jersey, 8 a.m. Meet at Philadelphia Art Museum, Italian water fountain. Call (856) 869-0473 or e-mail tonymarch@iwon.com.

Blood drive, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Masonville Emer-gency Medical Services, 201 Masonville Centerton Road, Mount Laurel. Call (800) GIVE LIFE.

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Golden Globe winner Uma Thurman has signed on to an HBO movie adaptation of acclaimed playwright David Hare's drama "The Zinc Bed."

Paddy Considine ("Hot Fuzz," "Cinderella Man") and Jonathan Pryce ("Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End") will also star in the film, which HBO is co-

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