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Remember when US Air Force General Curtis LeMay threatened to bomb North Vietnam back into the Stone Age?
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He asserted that he values the warm friendship between the Vietnamese and Filipino people, and was sending his New Year’s (Tet) greetings to us, "particularly to the youth".
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Instead of speaking directly with Guingona, who’s concurrently Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Powell referred him to Asst. State Secretary James Kelly, whom Tito, incidentally, personally knows since Kelly visited him last September on a trip here to Manila.
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Remember when US Air Force General Curtis LeMay threatened to bomb North Vietnam back into the Stone Age?
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He asserted that he values the warm friendship between the Vietnamese and Filipino people, and was sending his New Year’s (Tet) greetings to us, "particularly to the youth".
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