Word: pham
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Some notables sent their regrets. Cuba's Fidel Castro said he was busy, and so did North Korea's Kim II Sung and Uganda's Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada. Among those who did gather in Colombo: Viet Nam's ascetic Premier Pham Van Dong, Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, India's stately Indira Gandhi, Cyprus' black-bearded Archbishop Makarios...
Surprisingly, some of the rare conciliatory remarks at the conference were made by Viet Nam's Pham Van Dong -and directed toward the U.S. Dong said that his country wanted to develop normal diplomatic relations with Washington, as well as economic ties with the capitalist West. Said he to TIME'S David Aikman: "At present we see no sign of change in the situation [with the U.S.], but I think there will be an improvement in the future...
...weighted slightly in favor of the North; it has 249 representatives v. 243 for the South. Sitting in Hanoi, the Assembly will be mainly a rubber stamp to the ten-man Politburo of North Viet Nam's Lao Dong (Workers' Party). The legislators, warned Politburo Member Pham Hung, who is the party's chief representative in the South, will be expected to carry out Lao Dong policies "most scrupulously...
...most of the important North Vietnamese Communists. When the legislature convenes for the first time, possibly around May 19, it will choose a figurehead President for the unified country, plus a Premier and a Cabinet. Most likely choice as Premier is North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong. Others who will probably hold top leadership posts include Le Duan, First Secretary of the Lao Dong, and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, who was chief negotiator for the Viet Cong in Paris...
Just as they have taken a conciliatory line toward the South Vietnamese people, the Communists have made a few peaceable gestures toward an old enemy. Hanoi has indicated that it is ready and even anxious to establish diplomatic relations with the U.S.-"as soon as possible," North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong told visiting Senator George McGovern in Hanoi last month. The Vietnamese, McGovern was told, would welcome trade with American companies. North Viet Nam has potential exports of tea, art, jute and oil, and is desperately in need of the kind of technology the U.S. can provide...