Ex-Vietnamese Leader Calls for Peace

Ex-Vietnamese Leader Calls for Peace

(EXCERPT) TINI TRAN Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam - Former South Vietnamese premier Nguyen Cao Ky, back
in Vietnam after a 28-year exile in America, has dropped his vitriolic
anti-communist rhetoric and is calling for peace and reconciliation.

"I think it's the right time for all Vietnamese to talk about
reconciliation, about healing," the 73-year-old Ky said Friday in an
exclusive interview with The Associated Press.

Ky, one of the most high-profile figures from the Vietnam War, was
making his first homecoming trip since the war ended in 1975. He
arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon and South Vietnamese
capital) last week with his wife and daughter, saying it was "the
right moment to come." He traveled north to Hanoi on Friday.

At an outdoor cafe overlooking Hoan Kiem Lake in the heart of the
city, Ky was nostalgic as two childhood friends joined him for coffee
and reminiscing. Wearing a brown wool sport coat and sporting his
trade...

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