U.S. Navy will make port call in Vietnam

(EXCERPT) , By Sharon Behn THE WASHINGTON TIMES

HONOLULU — The first U.S. Navy vessel to dock in Vietnam in almost 30
years is due to arrive there on a landmark port call in November,
according to a military source and a former U.S. ambassador. The
military contact is the first since the United States pulled out of
Vietnam in 1975, withdrawing from a war that cost the United States
more than 58,000 lives and left an estimated 1.3 million to 3 million
North and South Vietnamese dead. There are an estimated 1,200 American
POW/MIAs still unaccounted for. A military official said Friday the
ship would dock for five days in what was largely a symbolic gesture
reflecting the deepening bilateral relationship between th...

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