Ho Chi Minh to get facelift

CNN ^ | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | Reuters

[yonif]

HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) -- Communist Vietnam is giving the hometown of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh a facelift in the hopes of making it a bigger draw for tourists.

Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has approved the project to conserve Kim Lien village, the central Vietnam birthplace of the president who died in 1969 at 79.

[Dr. Thorne]

Ho Chi Minh to get facelift

It's about time! After being dead for 34 years, I'll bet he's starting to look a little saggy.

[Backwoods Southern Lawyer]

The headline is misleading. When first I read it, I thought that the old guy himself was going to get refurbished, but when I read the body of the article, it looks like only his hometown is going to get a make-over.

[razorback-bert]

Take more than a facelift, to make him look presentable.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Silicone breast implants?

[RedMonqey]

I see their tourist board is competing for the communist "yuppie" tourist demographics in North Korea and Cuba

[ALOHA RONNIE]

America's Terrorist Enemy HO CHI MINH

America's Terrorist Enemy OSAMA bin LADEN

HILLARY RODHAM & BILL CLINTON aided both against US

[kellynla]

Not one Red cent until the commies account for every American MIA & POW.

[SquirrelKing]

Old....................................................... ...new

[bassmaner]

I wonder ...

How would CNN report efforts by the Austrian government to do a "facelift" in the little town of Braunau - the birthplace of another "revolutionary" world leader ...

[joesnuffy]

Hey ..... I recognize that Ahhhs Ho

[SquirrelKing]

:)