Word: communist
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Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, who brought more than 200 delegates with him, is the highest-ranking Vietnamese communist official to visit the United States since the Vietnam War ended...
Khai has been criticized for religious intolerance and violation of human rights in his role as a communist leader, and Vietnamese immigrant populations all over the country—many of whom fled Khai’s government—have been staging protests against the Prime Minister’s visit...
According to Thanh Nguyen, one of the VACM organizers who left Vietnam in 1988 to escape the communist government, the Boston protest itself drew demonstrators from all over the country...
...elections that ended on June 19 were supposed to herald a new era of independence from Syrian control. But the killing of another prominent anti-Syrian figure has overshadowed the opposition's success in securing a majority in the new parliament. George Hawi, a former secretary-general of the Communist Party and a critic of Syria's domination of Lebanon, died when a bomb exploded beneath his Mercedes in a busy Beirut street. Hawi was the second anti-Syrian activist to die in June, and many in Lebanon blame the murders on Syria and its allies in the Lebanese intelligence...
...crime was shrouded in secrecy and intrigue. Pentagon officials said only that it was one of the worst cases ever involving the diversion of Western computer technology to the Communist world. Clearly, though, the U.S. had been severely stung by East-bloc espionage agents, who had managed to place in Moscow's hands some $11 million worth of high-tech hardware that could be used in space-based missile defenses...