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Ex-leader Nguyen Cao Ky returns home to Vietnam
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Ex-leader Nguyen Cao Ky returns home to Vietnam
He becomes one of the best-known political figures to go back
By TINI TRAN Associated Press
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Former exiled South Vietnamese
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky returned Wednesday to the communist country he
fled nearly three decades ago, marking his first homecoming trip
since the Vietnam War ended.
Ky, 73, of Hacienda Heights, Calif., arrived in Ho Chi Minh City's
Tan So...
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