Volume 32, Number 13 · August 15, 1985
Vietnam: Casualties of Peace
By Gavin Young
'I saw some smiling pilgrims at a pagoda yesterday,' a Western diplomat confided soon after I arrived in Hanoi in April. 'That just shows how people aren't too unhappy under communism.' An odd judgment, I thought. He might as well have inferred from seeing a couple of pilgrims sharing a sandwich that the economy was booming. Yet Vietnam is one of the world's poorest countries.
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