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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: Vietnam and the US Congress

Date: July 15, 1998

AP is reporting that the Vietnam trade battle being waged on The Hill is "running into some stiff opposition in Congress."

In efforts to shore-up the lackluster performance of Vietnam as a business partner and the feared 'Domino Effect' of the Asian financial crisis, Clinton attached the Jackson-Vanik Waiver to ease trade restrictions and allow for a cash influx into the communist nation. Although there has been little opposition in both the Ways and Means and Trade Committees, the battle is spreading to Senate Foreign Relations and getting the attention of the few MOCs who have a conscience.

According to AP the slow busine$$ development is the result of official corruption, red tape, and in a surprising quote from former National Security Council bigwig Richard Childress during his testimony on The Hill, 'the road to Vietnam is littered ith broken promises.'

Apparently big busine$$ is experiencing exactly what POW-MIA families have experienced all these many years. Broken Promises.