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...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...
Thai Ngoc An, a physician and ex-political representative from Vinh Cong Province, said that he was fed animal feed and made to work in the fields during his three-year prison stay. Following his release government officials told him his detention had been a "misinterpretation of orders...
...were relieved when the communists arrived in April 1975. I immediately went for re-education so that I could be acceptable to the new regime and get back to my work in Vinh Long," An said...
...face of worldwide criticism, Viet Nam seemed neither upset nor contrite. Its Ambassador to China, Nguyen Trong Vinh, blandly observed that his country still had a number of "capitalists, landowners" and other undesirables who hated the new system. Said he: "These people want to go elsewhere...