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Clinton Welcome in Vietnam
H A N O I, Nov. 16 -- U.S. President Bill Clinton willfinally make it to Vietnam today, a quarter century aftera war he opposed that devastated the country and dividedAmerica.
The present-day U.S. commander-in-chief, who avoided theconflict that killed 58,000 Americans and three millionVietnamese, will be hoping to lay to rest some of the ghosts ofthe past.
As the first serving U.S. president to visit since the lateRichard Nixon went to the former U.S.-backed South Vietnam inJuly 1969, Clinton will look forward to a future built on tradeand business.
Clinton Welcome in Hanoi
Due to arrive at 11:10 p.m. local time for a three-day visitthat could be the last big foreign trip of his presidency,Clinton will be the first leader of the United States to visitHanoi, a city America bombed during the Vietnam War.
U.S. first lady and Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clintonarrived in Vietnam this afternoon, several hours beforeher husband. She had flown from Israel where she attended thefuneral of Leah Rabin, widow of Israel’s assassinated PrimeMinister Yitzhak Rabin.
President Clinton can expect a warm welcome in a countrywhere 60 percent of people were born after the war and manyothers have put the suffering behind them.
A typical reaction came from Nguyen Khanh Cuong, a55-year-old Hanoi shopkeeper whose staff were sewing U.S. flagsbeneath a portrait of late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh.
“Before the two countries were at war, but now that’s allin the past and now we have diplomatic relations,” he said.
“But in terms of the economy, the U.S. should bear partialresponsibility to help Vietnam’s economy recover.”
The official press has made scant mention of the visitbeyond announcing brief details of Clinton’s schedule —today’s English-language Vietnam News made no mention of itat all, but found space for a regional conference on digestion.
However, Hanoi has made clear Clinton is welcome as afriend who opposed the war, ended a punishing trade embargo in1994 and established diplomatic relations a year later.
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