Word: pham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muses Economy Minister Pham Kim Ngoc: "Jumbo jets carry charter groups from Europe to the beaches of Thailand. We also offer sun and sand. Why not Viet Nam?" A government study targets earnings from tourism at $140 million by 1980. By that time -and provided that the present uneasy truce does not get any uneasier -Ngoc even visualizes Con Son Island, the home of the notorious tiger cages for political prisoners, catering instead to tourists. They would enjoy miles of palm-fringed beaches that are occupied mainly by giant tortoises...
...Pham Van Dong, the prime minister of North Vietnam, has been a revolutionary for half a century. He helped Ho Chi Minh organize revolutionary groups in the 1930s. These small organizations later blossomed into the Viet Minh, which liberated half of Vietnam from French control...
...friendship' of those of you who don't like what your government does. Where do the Vietnamese people come in? Who is our friend? Yours sincerely, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Law '73 Hoang T. Ly, Harvard '76 Nguyen Thi Suong Hong, Harvard '75 Ho Hue Tam, GSAS 3 Pham Thi Hoa, East Asian Research Center
When I arrived in Hanoi one night in 1961 aboard a Russian military plane, the entire North Vietnamese Politburo was there to meet Laotian Prince Souvanna Phouma. I got to shake the hands of Premier Pham Van Dong, General Giap and Ho Chi Minh, who told me in near-perfect French: "Please tell the truth." The second time was totally different. There were no honor guards and no flowers at Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport-only a flock of black-suited men with black shoes, black socks and conservative ties...
Sipping tea at the Presidential Palace, Premier Pham Van Dong and Kissinger's familiar Paris adversary Le Duc Tho spent some of their time with the American in replaying the Paris talks, trying to assess each other's motives and tactics. They smiled often, obviously respecting each other's professional skills. There were few recriminations about the war. Instead there were realistic analyses of the problems that lie ahead...