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...urge you to report fully on the events of last Thursday and to call for an investigation by the appropriate authorities of what may well be a conspiracy to murder Dr. Ngo. John Womack Jr. Professor of History
...also alarms me that you have not published an editorial on the subject. If you believe any of the principles you usually preach, you must recognize that the attack on Dr. Ngo is an attack on us all. I hope that you understand me literally. If Dr. Ngo cannot return to Harvard to express his views on Vietnam without fearing for his life, then the faculty, guests, employees, and students who write and speak here on such subjects as Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, and ElSalvador have to expect that they too may soon run deathly risks...
...audience. Where are the crowds which not so long ago chanted "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh"? The "hostile crowd of about 100" which you reported was composed almost exclusively of Vietnamese. Many of them are boat people and recently arrived, and their hostility was directed exclusively at Ngo Vinh Long for his attempt to whitewash a regime which they know from painful experience to be corrupt, incompetent, and repressive...
Despite "the economic advancements in northern Vietnam" cited by Ngo Vinh Long, there were food riots last fall in Nghe Tinh (the cradle of Vietnamese Communism and the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh) and in Haiphong, and open disaffection in Hanoi. All these are areas that have been under Communist rule since 1945. Most of the Vietnamese who have reached Hong Kong this year (572 to date) come from the North; many were born and raised under Communism. The economy of Vietnam is supported to the tune of $100 million annually from the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who have...
...Vietnam, a country once held up to the rest of the world as a model of socialist development? In the words of Vice-Premier To Huu, "We will be poor and we will be hungry" until the end of this century (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Jan. 1981). Ngo Vinh Long may wish to refrain from criticizing the regime. There is no need for such restraint on the part of others, as the regime is doing a fairly good job of crying mea culpa for its appalling economic performance (which, by the way, it is blaming on mismanagement rather than...