Word: nguyen
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Voters chose 496 National Assembly representatives from among 829 candidates. Instead of being handpicked by top party officials, many candidates were selected by grass-roots organizations at public meetings, where disastrous economic policies that have made Viet Nam one of the world's poorest countries were widely criticized. Indeed, Nguyen Van Linh, 74, the Communist Party chairman who took office last December, has called for more democratic reforms and instituted free-market innovations to spur the economy...
...congress named a new, 13-man Politburo, though the torch has not exactly been passed to a fresh generation: the youngest member is 58, and the incoming General Secretary, Nguyen Van Linh, is 71. A former Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) party secretary, he has been identified with economic reform. Whether he can bring prosperity to his country is another matter. Several veteran Viet Nam observers believe that Hanoi's new leaders remain divided on the wisdom of adopting capitalist measures. Nor do these experts believe that the New Guard will alter the country's foreign policy course. Despite overtures...
Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach said yesterday in New Delhi, India, that talks on 1900 U.S. soldiers missing in action had been called off until the U.S. military threat against Libya ends...
...will leave him high and dry. Even if the government seizes the Manhattan properties that earns him an estimated $75 million this year, Marcos has plenty of cash stashed away in untouchable Swiss bank accounts. So it's unlikely that he'll end up like Nguyen Cao Ky, another despot America once supported. The flamboyant Prime Minister of South Vietman during the glory years of 1965-67, now owns and operates a liquor store in California...
...Nguyen isn't the only Westinghouse scholar Harvard accepted early this year. During the three day program this week, he met two other national award winners. One Westinghouse recipient is doing research in physics, and the other is engaging in anti-psychotic drug research, using a drug called--you guessed it--tritiated spiroperidol...