Word: pham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostilities with another former friend, the People's Republic of China. The pro-American trend in Hanoi is all the more notable given the starchy posture of the victorious Vietnamese regime following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. For more than three years the government, headed by Premier Pham Van Dong, 72, insisted that the U.S. pay $3.25 billion in "war reparations" as an absolute precondition to any normal diplomatic relationship. Although Hanoi has yet to say so officially, that galling proviso has now been withdrawn...
...this episode that finally prompted Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to go all out in retaliation. No less a military leader than Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero against the French at Dienbienphu and scourge of the Americans during the Viet Nam War, took charge of the campaign. Characteristically, Giap planned slowly; he devoted a full two months to studying the terrain and the situation...
Vietnam faces a serious rice shortage this fall, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong reported. Butterfield expands on that point, but in discussing the reasons for the shortage he points to "a combination of factors--a prolonged drought this year, government mismanagement and resistance to collectivization." In addition, Butterfield says, "with the end of the war in 1975, Vietnam lost large amounts of food aid to the South from the United States, and to the North from China...
...come here with good will," Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong told the Americans. "President Carter obviously wants to solve the problems between us in a new spirit. We are ready." Replied United Auto Workers' president Leonard Woodcock, who led the U.S. party: "Too long have tragic events kept our countries apart...
...part, Hanoi has taken the position that any accounting must be a part of an overall settlement that would also include some American gestures of conciliation. Hanoi's principal demand: a whopping $3.25 billion in "reconstruction aid" once promised by President Richard Nixon in a letter to Premier Pham Van Dong...