Former vice president of South Vietnam allowed to visit homeland

(EXCERPT) Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam - Communist Vietnam is allowing Nguyen Cao Ky, a former
premier and vice president of South Vietnam, to come home for the
first time since the end of the Vietnam War, an official said on
Thursday.

Ky, who lives in Southern California, is scheduled to arrive in Ho Chi
Minh City, formerly Saigon, on Jan. 14 to visit relatives and friends
for Tet, Vietnam's Lunar New Year, the Foreign Ministry official said.

He is also scheduled to visit Hanoi and Son Tay, his hometown, in Ha
Tay province, some 25 miles northwest of Hanoi. The official did not
elaborate on any other aspects of the visit.

Ky served as premier of U.S.-backed South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967
and then as vice president under Nguyen Van Thieu from 1967 to 1971.

South Vietnam fell to Communist forces on April 30, 1975, and like
many refugees, Ky fled to the United States where he went into
business in Louisiana and Orange County, Calif. He also wrote a book
and lectured at various universities.

In recent years, many overseas Vietnamese, or Viet kieu, have started
ret...

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