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...giant portraits of Mao and Stalin and Lenin and Marx that used to hang in Tien An Men Square have already begun to gather dust in a Peking warehouse and the Chinese are speaking a new language. Call it the language of capitalism or pragmatism or Deng but the vocabulary is different: market forces, decentralization, small-scale enterprise, "special economic zones." If you listen to the speeches long enough, the sounds coming from the Great Hall resemble a Raytheon board room more than a conference of command economy planners. "The only test now is whether it works," one young party...
...Hanoi, Labbé photographed some of the capital's elaborate defenses, including the omnipresent antiaircraft missiles, as well as Viet Nam's first women paratroopers. For the first time, Hanoi's top leaders posed for an informal group portrait, which included Minister of Defense General Van Tien Dung, who forged Viet Nam's formidable new military machine. Traveling along Viet Nam's northern frontier, Labbé photographed army and navy patrols and some of the country's elite units on permanent border alert...
...people of Quebec have clearly given federalism another chance." But he added: "The ball is in the federalist court, and now it's up to Mr. Trudeau to put some content into [his] promises." True to his word, Trudeau last week dispatched Minister of Justice Jean Chrétien on a whirlwind tour of Canada's ten provincial capitals to lay the groundwork for a conference of premiers and the Prime Minister, which could take place as early as July. Its purpose: to seek a consensus on how to change Canada's constitution, the British North America...
...minus one, Pham Van Dong, Army Chief of Staff General Van Tien Dung and other Cabinet members flew to Phnom-Penh to sign a friendship treaty with the new Heng Samrin regime. The absence of Viet Nam's top officialdom from Hanoi may have helped determine the timing of Peking's attack...
...western and northern frontiers. But as for why such tail twisting should now be so popular in Hanoi, some Western observers can only speculate that it is a sign that a group of hard-lining expansionists, led by General Vo Nguyen Giap and Army Chief of Staff Van Tien Dung, are gaining supremacy in the Vietnamese Politburo...