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...questioned that Saddam Hussein is a villain who raped Kuwait and must be removed. Saddam made it easy by being a sort of caricature of an enemy, a heavy out of professional wrestling. There seemed no chance that he would be adulated as, say, Ho Chi Minh was during the Vietnam War. The question in Americans' minds was whether Saddam should be forcibly, militarily, removed now, or squeezed over many months by international sanctions. After the Geneva talks broke up last week, Americans seemed resigned that war would come. They thought it was necessary, but they did not much welcome...
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...
Dimitrov was part of a shrinking club of embalmed communist leaders. If the trend toward democracy continues, will Lenin, Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh also go up in smoke...
...weight of Vietnamese history indicates that the official is right. Nevertheless, there is more to celebrate in Vietnam than the 100th birthday of Ho Chi Minh. Vietnamese in the North and South alike are beginning to hope their country can transcend its old divisions and enter a new age of prosperity. In Hanoi, Nguyen Van Su, 75, sits in front of his sewing machine in his own little shop. Says he: "I remember when Ho Chi Minh declared independence. We all liked it. Now the government is calling for reform. I like that too. It's the direction the whole...
...years after U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin slipped away in the predawn darkness of a collapsing Saigon, the U.S. has yet to establish diplomatic relations with the government of Vietnam. Washington continues to act as if Hanoi had sent its troops to invade Virginia instead of down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Since 1975, the U.S. has imposed a trade embargo against Vietnam that has been more effective than the mining of Haiphong harbor ever was. It has helped keep Vietnam's badly managed economy on its knees, which in turn has encouraged a steady flow of refugees to Hong Kong...