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Clinton lifts Vietnam embargo
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON (API —
President Clinton made a
controversial gesture of
rii on< i lint ion toward Vie!
nam on Thursday, lifting the
19-vear l! S trade embargo
against a nation whose divisive war inti a Ingot \
of suspicion over thi* fate of missing American
soldiers ami airmen
The move opens an important emerging market
for American gtxxis in .Southeast Asia and was
greeted with enthusiasm hv U S business inter
ests already setting up u peril!ions in the former
enemy capital of Ifanoi
Clinton made his announcement after de
scribing his thinking in several private meetings
with veterans groups and anxious family mem
bers of the missing serv icemen Reaction from
those groups was largely negative
Clinton said he was < om tnt ed the step would
further efforts to get a full at counting of the miss
ing Americans, and that his det ision was not
I wised on enabling IJ S business to make profits
there.
"We would lose leverage (on resolving MIA
questions with Vietnam) if them were no forward
movement." Clinton said lit1 said there had been
mm h progress in ret ont months in at counting
for 2.2 tH American MIAs and POWs in Vietnam,
l-aos and (lainbodia
Senate Kepublit-un leader Ro!x*rt Dole of
Kansas said. "While main of my colleagues think
lifting thi* trade embargo on Vietnam is the right
course. I (relieve it is the wrong det ision at the
w rung time for the wrong reasons "
Clinton's det ision to risk the wrath of veterans
groups was made easier by a nonbinding 62-.HR
vote in the Senate last Thursday favoring an end
to the embargo Some veterans and family groups
maintain that Vietnam has recovered the remains
of hundreds of MIAs but refuses to turn them
over to l S authorities
I von though Clinton minimized the benefits
American businesses would receive. it is no
sol rot dm! Vietnam is regarded as ripe territory
for foreign investors It is one of Asia's fastest
growing markets and nearly all other i outlines
that had oike joined in the emhargo have re
established i oinrnen.ial lies with the communist
nation
American businesses have pressed for an end
to the emhargo
In Hanoi. Amaru an business leaders hailed
Clinton's move, saying it would finally give them
the i hatu.e to compete in a SI billion market.
Vietnam is "the hottest emerging market in the
world right nmv. viid Eugene Matthews. presi
dent of Ashta International Ini .in investment
and consulting firm Ashta is one of 34 U S firms
that have Oftened offic os in Vietnam in antic ipa
tion of the f S embargo being lifted European
and Asian nations already have invested him
dreds of millions of dollars in the country
Clinton's efforts to avoid military servo e dur
mg the Vietnam War — and his opposition to
that war — made his dot tsion all the more sensi
tive But Clinton said that every Amero an of his
age knew someone who died or was wounded in
the fighting
Clinton insisted that removing the trade embar
go was not the same as restoring full diplomatic
relations with Vietnam
Many family members and veterans groups
preferred that Clinton keep the embargo in place
to entourage t ontinued Vietnamese cooperation
on the MIA issue
Ann Mills Griffith, head of a Vietnam MIA
K)W family group. boycotted Clinton’s meeting
with family groups because she was told by the
White House that Clinton had already made up
his mind to lift the embargo.
She said the president has 'clearly broken" his
promises com erning ( onditions for lifting the
embargo "I fault the bureaucrat v lor misin
forming the president and giv ing him advit e that
doesn't hold water." she said Clinton said his
det isiun was guided by progress in four key
areas:
— Recovery of remains of American soldiers in
Vietnam. Clinton said that since last July,
remains of t*i American serv ii emeu had been
recovered.
Resolution of "disc repuncy cases" in whic h
there was reason to Itelieve people could have
surv ivod. Clinton said that since filly. the number
of such cases had been reduced from Ltri to 7 1
Further assistanc e from Vietnam and Laos in
c undue ting seen lies along their c oniimin border.
Lite hrs! suc h investigation took plac e in Decem
ber and located new remains and crash sites.
Clinton said.
Release of any documents from Vietnam that
c ould shed light on the fate of those still missing.
Clinton said that since July, important docu
ments had been released from the Vietnamese
arc hives
In terms of ability to generate emotions, few
issues c an matc h the one involv ing the MIAs.
There is a strong suspicion among main MIA
family members and veterans groups that some of
the missing are still alive, but the administration
has said there is no c redible evidence of that
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