Hanoi crisis speculation
(N.Z P A.-Reuter —Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 2.
The North Vietnamese Prime Minister (Mr Phan Van Dong), who is 64, may be critically ill. either with a heart ailment or cancer, according to the “Washington Post.”
Quoting informed sources, the newspaper’s diplomatic correspondent, Stanley Karnow, says that Mr Dong’s illness appears to have created a leadership problem in Hanoi.
Analysts in Washington, he says, feel that it is significant that Mr Dong did not appear publicly during the recent visit to Hanoi of President Podgorny of the Soviet Union.
Mr Dong last appeared publicly on June 2. Mr Karnow says that American specialists believe that a series of high-level conferences in Hanoi recently showed signs of a leadership crisis there.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32958, 3 July 1972, Page 13
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