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- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- BETTER RED THAN UNFED. Viet Nam's aging Communist hierarchy
- has sent a clear signal that major Soviet-style political
- reforms are out of the question. This aversion to change stems
- both from ideology and practicality. Hanoi, long allied with
- Moscow and at odds with Beijing, has been offered $2.1 billion
- in aid from China to cover a projected shortfall in Soviet
- assistance. The collateral: a commitment from Hanoi to keep
- glasnost from breaking out near China's southern border.
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