Friday, December 10, 2004

 

Not Like The Last Flight Out

It's been awhile:

HO CHI MINH CITY - Vietnam prepared to welcome on Friday the arrival of a United Airlines jumbo jet making the first passenger flight by an American carrier to the communist nation since the fall of Saigon in 1975.
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The United States has subsequently become Vietnam’s most important trading partner and in recent years the two former foes have stepped up cooperation on a broad swathe of issues such as health and counter-terrorism.