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...Xuan Oanh, twice acting Prime Minister of South Vietnam and currently an economic adviser to Hanoi, the economic infrastructure in the South remains about 35 years ahead of that in the North, despite great efforts to bridge the gap. The differences are immediately apparent between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which is still called Saigon, even by local officials...
...there is a liveliness about the city, an authenticity as a national capital that somehow always eluded Saigon. May 19 marks the 100th birthday of Ho Chi Minh, the man who fought the Japanese, the French, the Americans and his own countrymen to win an independent, unified nation. For the past month, Hanoi has played host to thousands of visitors, foreign and Vietnamese alike, as they paid homage to the frail little man with a will of iron. The pilgrims move slowly past Ho's body lying on a glass-enclosed platform in the neo- Stalinist marble mausoleum, stopping only...
...thousand miles to the south, Ho Chi Minh City basks in the hot sun at the end of the dry season. But the difference is more than a matter of weather. Roads are in better repair, and the streets are clogged with motor-scooter and automobile traffic. New hotels and fresh paint are everywhere as the city asserts its claim to be the home of Vietnam's indomitable entrepreneurial spirit...
Anchored in the Saigon River is the Saigon Floating Hotel, offering single rooms at $150 a night and a BLT sandwich -- "Ho Chi Minh-style" -- for $8.50. It is crowded with Hong Kong, Singaporean and European businessmen. On Dong Khoi Street, the Continental Palace Hotel has undergone a complete renovation. The famous "Continental shelf," once an open-air terrace where American journalists and government officials camped out, is now enclosed and air-conditioned. The Rex, formerly a U.S. Army billet, has reopened as a luxury hotel, and the Majestic, facing the Saigon River, has been spruced up. The hotels take...
...dubbed Operation Hat Trick. The operation was cut short, according to a U.S. military officer, because the results did not seem to justify the costs. Nor does the military have much of an interdiction success record: in Viet Nam it was never able to close the primitive Ho Chi Minh Trail; quarantining 88,000 miles of U.S. shoreline is at least as daunting...