--------------------- Forwarded message: Subj: THE `LEADERS' Date: 96-06-27 22:45:43 EDT From: Lechithao To: activ-l@mizzou1.missouri.edu,SW629C To: 73377.1220@compuserve.com I just happened to open my e-mail box and caught these two juxtaposing articles I htought some friends of mine had played a joke on me. I am simply re-posting these two articles with no comment and with numbed feelings for your perusal. From: vinsight@netcom.com (Vietnam Insight) Subject: Saigonese's Letter to Dao Duy Tung To: Lechithao@aol.com Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 07:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Followed is a letter to Dao Duy Tung (in both Vietnamese and English) by a Vietnamese with the pen name "The Saigonese". The letter reveals some top secrets of the Vietnamese Communist Party and that of its leaders including Ho Chi Minh. The revelation includes cold-blooded orders to massacre party members out of suspicion and patriotic Cambodians during the VCP occupation of Cambodia. ***************** FOR DAO DUY TUNG ***************** You have not passed away for you are still alive. But writing this obituary for you is still appropriate. Appropriate to what? To your directive 67-CT/TW. Even little fish like us at this cafe cannot imagine a person with your stature -- a decades long Party career, among the most knowledgeable of Marxism-Leninism (Mao's interpretation) -- yet in the defense of a deteriorated regime led by a mad man had to muster 36 words to name the title of your directive: "Directive on the increment of guidance and management of counter measures to defeat the plots and ploys of the adversary forces that are using means of communication and electronics to oppose and ruin us." Even an individual like yourself can be made to say: "In past years, under the leadership of the Party, our people have joined together in striving for a successful doi moi effort. The trust of cadres, party members, and the people in the Party's doi moi policy and its leadership have been reinforced and elevated." You also boasted in this directive: "Facing our great accomplishments, adversary forces from inside and outside the country are further combining efforts and increasing activities against us. They focus heavily on the use of public communication facilities such as the Vietnamese-language programs of the Voice of America, Radio New Horizon, RFI, BBC, and other means capable of collecting and disseminating information quickly such as books, documentation, fax, telephone, etc. Their aim is to divide us, to shake the faith in our cadres and party members and in all of our people." Dear brother Tung, we don't care about how many [gold] "bars" you have collected for your family in your long "revolutionary" career, but if these words are the indication of all the wisdom you have accumulated, then what a waste. (By the way, I need to take a break here and inform all my friends at the cafe of the latest news from Hanoi: the Medical Team of the Party Central Committee disclosed that Dao Duy Tung has had blood