Word: vinh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience. Where are the crowds which not so long ago chanted "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh"? The "hostile crowd of about 100" which you reported was composed almost exclusively of Vietnamese. Many of them are boat people and recently arrived, and their hostility was directed exclusively at Ngo Vinh Long for his attempt to whitewash a regime which they know from painful experience to be corrupt, incompetent, and repressive...
Despite "the economic advancements in northern Vietnam" cited by Ngo Vinh Long, there were food riots last fall in Nghe Tinh (the cradle of Vietnamese Communism and the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh) and in Haiphong, and open disaffection in Hanoi. All these are areas that have been under Communist rule since 1945. Most of the Vietnamese who have reached Hong Kong this year (572 to date) come from the North; many were born and raised under Communism. The economy of Vietnam is supported to the tune of $100 million annually from the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who have...
...Vietnam, a country once held up to the rest of the world as a model of socialist development? In the words of Vice-Premier To Huu, "We will be poor and we will be hungry" until the end of this century (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Jan. 1981). Ngo Vinh Long may wish to refrain from criticizing the regime. There is no need for such restraint on the part of others, as the regime is doing a fairly good job of crying mea culpa for its appalling economic performance (which, by the way, it is blaming on mismanagement rather than...
...Vinh Long '68, who recently spent seven months in Vietnam, responded that the "regime inherited tremendous problems after the war and attacks against the socialist system represent simplistic and counter-productive rhetoric...
Indochina's current Communist regimes seek their own middle way to deal with their Buddhist populations. In South Viet Nam, people are free to worship, but those who meditate with the 15 monks (out of 30) who remain at the Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City are reminded by the bust of Uncle Ho and numerous red banners that the religion is tolerated only as an appendage of the state. In Laos, over the past five years, one-fourth of the peasant population of 3 million have swum or rafted across the Mekong River to Thailand...