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Apr. 30, 1990: "It's Time To Heal The Wounds"
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
VIETNAM, Page 25
"It's Time to Heal the Wounds"
</hdr>
<body>
<p>By Stanley W. Cloud and Nguyen Co Thach
</p>
<p> Vietnam's Foreign Minister, Nguyen Co Thach, spoke in Hanoi
with TIME's Washington bureau chief, Stanley W. Cloud.
Excerpts:
</p>
<p> Q. Is anything going on between Vietnam and the U.S. that
we don't know about?
</p>
<p> A. Up to now, we have met all the requirements of the U.S.
[on MIAs, family reunification, human-rights abuses in the
re-education camps]. But in the State Department there is no
change. For example, I am not allowed to go beyond 25 miles of
New York City when I am in the U.S. [retired General John]
Vessey can come here and go everywhere. American Congressmen
are free to go everywhere in Vietnam.
</p>
<p> Q. Does the situation in Cambodia interfere with the
normalization of relations between Vietnam and the U.S.?
</p>
<p> A. The Cambodian problem serves only as a pretext. The
greatest mistake of the U.S. is not the Vietnam War. It is this
strategy of using Vietnam as a pawn in the relationship between
China and the U.S. It would be much better if the U.S.
considered Vietnam in terms of its intrinsic value.
</p>
<p> Q. What would be the main benefit to the U.S. of
normalization?
</p>
<p> A. Why can the U.S. have good relations with the Soviet
Union and China and not with small [Communist] countries? This
is not good for the image of the U.S. in the Third World.
</p>
<p> Normal relations between the U.S. and Vietnam could
contribute to peace and cooperation in Southeast Asia and to
maintaining the independence of this area vis-a-vis China.
</p>
<p> Last but not least, it is time to heal the wounds of war.
I don't mention the physical or the mental wounds, but the
moral ones. As long as this state of abnormal relations drags
on, the moral wounds will bleed. It is time to sit down and
talk and play and have fun. Why only hostile attitudes? When
I meet the people from the State Department, their faces never
smile. It is a pity. We could help you have good health and
good morale.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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