President in Coma, Medical Sources Say

President Le Duc Anh is lying in a coma at Hanoi’s 108 Army Hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage about nine days ago, medical sources said. “Earlier in the week he’d been getting better, but in the last few days his condition became very serious,” one source said, adding that doctors were unwilling to operate on the 75-year-old general or move him as his condition was so bad. That was at odds with a government source’s comment on Saturday that Anh, a member of the Communist country’s leadership troika, had begun to recover.