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CALENDAR OF EVENTS: 1988

JANUARY

12

14

15

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A

15

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15 18

19 21

23

24

25

27

29

29

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4 February

Visit of US Congressman Chester Atkins.

Vietnam returned 14 Chinese citizens allegedly caught intruding into Vietnamese territory.

Expert level US-Vietnamese meeting about Vietnamese humanitarian concerns.

Visit of US Congressman Robert Mrazek to review the implementation of his bill about the repatriation of Amerasian children.

Major

Round-Table Conference of Asian Pacific Journalists held in Ho Chi Minh City. speeches by Nguyen Co Thach and Nguyen van Linh.

Expert level US-Vietnamese meetings on MIAs.

13th Session of Vietnamese-USSR Intergovernmental Commission for Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation held in Ho Chi Minh City. Soviet delegation led by Vladimir Gusev, Vice Chairman of Council of Ministers.

357 Thai fishermen caught illegally fishing in Vietnamese waters released on payment of a fine of US $1,000 per head.

Visit of General A D Lizitchev, Member of the CPSU Central Committee and Head of the General Political Department of the Soviet Armed Forces.

FEBRUARY

4

11

Visit of General T Soetrisno, Chief of the Indonesian Army Staff.

Government announced that on occasion of Tet, 9174 prisoners would be set free or have sentences reduced. These would include 1014 military officers and civil servants of the Saigon regime. The Government claimed that this would leave 159 former regime prisoners still in re-education

camps.

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