WORLD IN BRIEF : VIETNAM : Few Friends Present to Salute ‘Uncle Ho’
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Vietnam’s Communist leaders, fast losing friends and funds as their socialist allies defect to capitalism, gave founding father Ho Chi Minh a loving but austere salute. The mood in Hanoi was somber as only a few foreign dignitaries attended a ceremony for the centenary of “Uncle Ho.”
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