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Article: PHAM HUNG, 75 WAS PREMIER OF VIETNAM
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 12, 1988
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Vietnam Premier Pham Hung, who joined
the communist movement when he was 16 and played a key role in
defeating the United States in the Vietnam War, has died of a heart
attack. He was 75.
The domestic Vietnamese radio, quoting official communiques,
said Premier Hung died early Thursday afternoon "while working in
Ho Chi Minh City and other southern provinces."
It said the council of ministers named a vice premier, Vo Van
Kiet, as acting premier until the national assembly chooses a
permanent successor.
Premier Hung was a member of the "old guard," a small group
of revolutionaries who took up radical politics in their teens,
joined the Communist Party in the ...