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Article: Hanoi's victory undone? Vietnam embraces the market. (effects of capitalism)
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- Commonweal
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- August 18, 1995
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Ho Chi Minh's corpse glows under the yellow light. A twenty-second glimpse and we are out of the air-conditioned tomb and back in Hanoi's sweltering heat.
On this twentieth anniversary of the Vietnam War's end, and two weeks before President Bill Clinton is to "recognize" Hanoi, this son of a World War I hero and journalist has had a compulsion to see the land that had defeated both France and the United States of America.
Hanoi, in its tree-lined boulevards and Old-City streets, which roar and belch with the zoom and fumes of half a million motorbikes, evokes the perpetual marketplace where everybody does everything out on the street: people squat on tiny ...