Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Vietnam Denies Offer to Brown
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Vietnam denied that it had offered U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown $700,000 to help get the U.S. economic embargo lifted. A foreign ministry spokesman in Hanoi said the allegation, which surfaced in U.S. News and World Report, was groundless. “Those who made this ill-intentioned allegation aimed to obstruct the process of normalizing relations between the United States and Vietnam,” the spokesman in Hanoi said.
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