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...Sandinistas in order to gain influence and control over events in the nations to our south. I am just as afraid as the next person of growing Soviet involvement in the region. But the U.S has its hands in too many Central American cookie jars, and, as in Viet Nam, we are bound to get caught in one of them. Jamie A. Lopez Los Altos, Calif...
...decade after the last U.S. combat forces pulled out and eight years after the Republic of Viet Nam crumbled, reminders of the great victory are everywhere. "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom," one of Ho's favorite slogans, is stenciled on hundreds of roadside monuments, while colorful posters exhorting one and all to remember the North Vietnamese army's heroic sacrifices adorn shopwindows. In Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, the airport is fringed by old bomb craters and littered with the hulks of U.S. transport planes. In Hanoi, the capital, the memories...
...North Vietnamese, the triumph of 1975 held the sweet promise of peace and prosperity; once those in the South realized that a vengeful bloodbath would not take place, they too believed that better times were ahead. Yet as the rare U.S. journalist allowed inside Viet Nam can attest, that hope has not come true. Instead of realizing Ho's dream of a land ten times as beautiful as before the war, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, unifying North and South since July 1976, is vexed by troubles at home and abroad. Its economy struggles along, its 57 million...
Many of the country's problems can be traced to the fact that Hanoi continues to rely on war veterans rather than skilled administrators to run the government. Viet Nam's top officials are all veterans, but a good guerrilla does not necessarily make a good executive. At the province level, for example, fewer than a third of the officials have a college or vocational education. The gaps extend to the top: not one of the 15 members of the Politburo has any training in economics...
...Viet Nam's economic survival continues to depend largely on Moscow's munificence. Soviet aid to Hanoi last year totaled about $1 billion, with an additional $500 million lent by other East bloc countries. In turn, the Soviets have demanded and been granted the right to use the military bases at Danang and the American-built facility at Cam Ranh Bay. Soviet diplomats, military experts and technical advisers stationed in Viet Nam now total some 10,000, and the number appears to be rising steadily...