Word: pham
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...conflict. At one point, the group was escorted to the crash site of a B-52 bomber that had been shot down over Hanoi in December 1972. A U.S. insignia was still visible on the wreckage. The Newstour met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach and aging Premier Pham Van Dong. In an interview that is excerpted in the World section, an intransigent Pham seemed unwilling to compromise on any aspect of his country's aggressive policy toward Kampuchea or its backward socialist economy...
Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, met with the Time Newstour in Hanoi's French colonial-style Chu Tich Phu presidential palace. Dressed formally in a black, high-collared suit that accentuated his bronze features and high-combed silver hair, Pham took questions for more than an hour in a large, red- carpeted receiving hall, under a huge bust of his mentor, Ho Chi Minh. Throughout the session, Pham lived up to his reputation for haughty intractability, flashing anger at some questions, receiving others with a scornful laugh. He also showed an intransigent commitment to maintaining his country's doctrinaire...
...that a negotiated end may be possible to Viet Nam's military occupation of Kampuchea, formerly Cambodia. Additionally, a top official says that this month Hanoi will begin to disinter the remains of U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action since the Viet Nam War. Despite such concessions, however, Pham's country faces an array of diplomatic problems, including China's continuing hostility and U.S. unease over the Soviet naval presence at Cam Ranh Bay. Excerpts from the interview...
...texture of war: whirring helicopters, cascades of bombs from the bellies of B-52s, the devastation wrought by battle. As used in the series, the camera is also a neutral observer: it provides a forum to participants ranging from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and from Americans who considered the war honorable to those who believed it immoral. Conclusions about right and wrong are left to the viewer...
...Politburo, however, remains dominated by septuagenarians, some of them ailing; Premier Pham Van Dong is 77, while Secretary General Le Duan just turned 76. The Vietnamese Communist Party, which has 1.7 million members, is divided and confused. There is no clear doctrine on topics ranging from farming collectives to foreign relations. Visitors to Hanoi now hear the government bitterly criticized, with the most pointed complaints coming from cadres. Some government workers are so desperate that they even approach foreigners on the street and offer to change money illegally, at the rate of 75 dong to $1, vs. the official rate...