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National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was meeting secretly with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam in Paris. In October, Nixon proposed a "standstill cease fire" and offered a proposal to the North Vietnamese for mutual withdrawal. In three years, the last American troops would leave South Vietnam...
...must grow at an annual rate of 8% for another decade to catch up with the rest of Southeast Asia. At the same time, inefficient industries must be closed and unneeded workers laid off. The country's infrastructure is virtually nonexistent. To reach Ho Chi Minh City from Can Tho, the heart of the Mekong Delta's rice and seafood region, requires two ferry crossings and more than five hours of driving on what is considered a good two-lane road. The distance is only 80 miles...
...recent months critics have charged that conservative party leaders are blocking the reform process, as they begin to recognize that change may cost them--and family members--their sinecures. "A lot of people have dedicated their lives to getting us here," says Vo Tong Xuan, vice rector of Can Tho University. "We have to give them our respect, but not at the expense of the whole country." For Communist Party chief Do Muoi, 78, and Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, 74, the question is how much communism they can get away with jettisoning. A recent internal party poll showed that...
...agreement leading to the withdrawal of American Forces from Southeast Asia (Tho refused his prize...
Background: Kissinger and Tho played key roles in the prosecution of the war in Indochina. Total dead between 1965 and 1975: more than 2 million...