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...fought alongside Yugoslavia's future leader Josip Broz Tito and went on to hold key positions in his communist government. But Djilas' criticism of the power and privilege granted to party leaders eventually led to years of imprisonment, during which he wrote The New Class, his seminal critique of communism...
Today's world confronts the U.S. with nothing remotely like Vietnam. There is no global struggle with communism to drag America into every brush-fire conflict from Yemen to Angola. U.S. Presidents have the freedom to pick their wars and fight them as they choose, without worrying about setting off a thermonuclear war. The U.S. could go into Somalia and Haiti knowing it would never involve 500,000 troops for years, because the final outcome in those countries is not vital to America's national interests--we do not believe we are in a long twilight struggle with Somali warlords...
...years. Instead, there followed what Vietnamese call "the 10 bad years," during which orthodox communist policies and a costly occupation of Cambodia made Vietnam one of the world's poorest countries. In 1986 Nguyen Van Linh, a southerner, took over with a call for gradual reform. In 1989, as communism seemed to be collapsing elsewhere in the world, Vietnam flung open its doors to foreign investment. The economy has been growing at an annual rate of 7% to 8% over the past three years. In February 1994, when the U.S. dropped its 19-year trade embargo, aid and investment began...
...even now, progress is uneven. Though Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are booming, rural Vietnam--where most of the country's 73 million people live--is largely destitute. Half of Vietnamese children suffer from chronic malnutrition. The country's remarkably high literacy levels-among communism's proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam...
...getting us here," says Vo Tong Xuan, vice rector of Can Tho University. "We have to give them our respect, but not at the expense of the whole country." For Communist Party chief Do Muoi, 78, and Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, 74, the question is how much communism they can get away with jettisoning. A recent internal party poll showed that 47% of the government's top bureaucrats would just as soon have some other system. But so far, no one knows what that might be. "The politburo keeps talking about evils like peaceful evolution [the gradual erosion...