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...come here with good will," Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong told the Americans. "President Carter obviously wants to solve the problems between us in a new spirit. We are ready." Replied United Auto Workers' president Leonard Woodcock, who led the U.S. party: "Too long have tragic events kept our countries apart...
...Ford Administration blocked Hanoi from being admitted to the U.N. and refused to extend diplomatic recognition until the Vietnamese made a "full accounting" of American MIAS. North Vietnamese officials refused to do so until the U.S. paid the $3.25 billion in reconstruction aid that Richard Nixon had promised Dong in a 1973 letter, an agreement U.S. officials maintain was nullified when the Communists broke the Paris peace accords. Since Carter's election, both countries have softened their positions (TIME...
...Ding Dong...
...taken the position that any accounting must be a part of an overall settlement that would also include some American gestures of conciliation. Hanoi's principal demand: a whopping $3.25 billion in "reconstruction aid" once promised by President Richard Nixon in a letter to Premier Pham Van Dong...
...insists he once saw then Ambassador Kim Dong Jo stuffing $100 bills into white envelopes. Kim's attaché case was "bulging with bundles of $100 bills. There must have been several hundred thousand dollars in that briefcase. It was an astonishing sight." Says...