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...roads need to be replaced or repaired. Hanoi anticipates spending about $1 billion before the turn of the century on harbor-dredging projects alone. The country also needs power plants, additional airliners and new hotels, dozens of which are already under construction in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City...
...enthusiasts believe that assets like oil, timber and an industrious, literate population are the makings of another Asian miracle. Harder heads are skeptical, noting that the nation consolidated by Ho Chi Minh's heirs after the 1975 fall of Saigon is poverty-stricken and still at least partly under the thumb of ancient Marxists. Per capita income remains at $200 a year, one of the poorest in the world. Says Julian Reid, a director of Jardine Fleming Securities in Hong Kong: "In the medium to long term, Vietnam is extremely exciting. The short term is full of frustrations...
...been beating a path to the reforming communist country's door, and American business scouts have been like frustrated greyhounds in the traps, waiting to spring. Practically within minutes after Clinton's announcement, Pepsi-Cola was passing out free cans of Pepsi on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City. United Airlines promised to inaugurate regular flights from Los Angeles quickly. American Express signed a contract to return with its charge cards, the first to be admitted in 19 years. A regime that used to revile Uncle Sam as an imperialist aggressor was rolling out the welcome...
...century, California represents the future of our society. In no other place is visible the fantastic variety of immigrants that now populate the Golden State. Los Angeles alone has more Mexicans than anyplace outside Mexico City, more Koreans than anyplace outside Seoul, more Vietnamese than anyplace outside Ho Chi Minh City, and so on. President Clinton is fond of saying that we must make diversity our friend and not our enemy. California is heeding the call everyday. The success that even the newest immigrants from central America and Southeast Asia are enjoying demonstrates that California is indeed forging a friendship...
...Shoot for the Contents," with Trinh T. Minh-ha in person, at 7:30 p.m. A unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China...