WASHINGTON -- Sitting as
guest of honor at a dinner marking a new era of friendship between his country and the United States, Vietnam's prime minister got a stark reminder of the divisiveness that lingers a generation after the war ended. "That's life," visiting Prime Minister Phan Van Khai muttered after security officers hustled a balding, shouting protester believed to be a Vietnam veteran away from the head table. The protester inside the Mayflower Hotel ball room was being interrogated by Secret Service agents, Secret Service spokeswoman Lorie Lewis said. The man, whose identify was not disclosed, had shouted "
You're a traitor" toward the stage, but it was unclear whether he meant
Bush,
Rumsfeld,
Bill Frist or
McCain. Across from the hotel where Khai spoke,
demonstrators waved the flag of the former
South Vietnam, yellow with three vertical red stripes, to
protest the communist government's rights record.
Posted by Editor at June 27, 2005 06:16 AM
