Chairman. that the real need is for American involvement. not for us to turn our backs and continue trying to punish Vietnam. He felt his country and his people had been punished enough. that it is now time for healing. it is time for people like him and others like him to participate in Vietnams economy. He feels very strongly that the people who are living in very difficult conditions in refugee camps ought to be repatriated back to Vietnam to see. as he did. the changes that have occurred in Vietnam. to realize that time marches on. that the Vietnamese people now are far more focused on the future. a fairly bright economic future. than they are obsessed in the past. There seem to be more people in this country who are looking upon Vietnam with the blinders of the past than there are in Vietnam itself. This body time and again has made wrong decisions with regard to that country.