U.S. ambassador’s guests are blocked
Vietnamese police blocked dissidents’ wives from attending a tea at U.S. Ambassador Michael Marine’s house. Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana), who also was invited, said police had “manhandled” the women.
Sanchez said 15 police officers surrounded two women when they arrived Thursday. Marine said Friday that he had complained about the incident to Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem.
Marine said he had arranged similar meetings in the past. He had invited five women, but three were stopped in their Hanoi neighborhoods and never arrived, Sanchez said.
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