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Apparently, news of the changing political realities in Eastern Europe has not fully registered on Vietnamese officials. Citizens can still buy week-long "friendship tours" of various East bloc countries for only $200. According to a story making the rounds of Ho Chi Minh City, 37 tourists recently left for Czechoslovakia. They must have liked what they saw there, because only seven of them took the return flight home...
First there were the magazines from East Germany. World Marxist Review and Radio Berlin magazine flooded my mailbox. Next a huge package arrived from Radio Beijing complete with expensive handmade origami cuttings depicting "friendship pandas," large banners with scenes from mainland China and a wall calendar that I think I saw recently in my local Chinese restaurant...
...born 40 years ago as a specifically anti-Soviet alliance, today has only the most peaceful intentions toward the U.S.S.R. As the closing communique put it, "The Atlantic community must reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries . . . and extend to them the hand of friendship...
...year ago. The first class of the day still opens with a student announcement: "Attention!" Andre Berndt, 16, two tiny hoop earrings glistening in each ear, bids his classmates. "Mrs. Dudelitz," he continues, "Class 10 is ready for the English lesson." Before the revolution, the students replied with "Friendship," the official greeting of the Communist youth organization. Now they simply say, "Good morning...
Siegfried Buschmann, chief executive officer of the Michigan-based Budd Company, said the donation carried less political meaning than good will. Buschmann said it was the company's way of recognizing friendship and good market relations between Germany and the United States...