General Reportedly Will Head Party
From Times Wire Reports
Lt. Gen. Le Kha Phieu has been appointed chief of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, party sources said. He was chosen at a closed-door meeting of the party Central Committee to replace General Secretary Do Muoi, they said. Phieu, 66, is seen by Western observers as a conservative. He has warned that Vietnam is threatened by unnamed external forces seeking to take advantage of the country’s economic and political liberalization.
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