An extract. >Grand meeting and parade celebrate National Day A meeting, military parade and >march of the masses were held in Hanoi on the morning of September 2 to >celebrate the 55th anniversaries of the August Revolution and the National >Day. A delegation of athletes carried a revolutionary torchlight from the Ho >Chi Minh Museum to light up the flame from a make-shift tower in front of Ba >Dinh Square. When the Party and State leaders had come to the rostrum, the >national anthem was started. Minister of Culture and Information Nguyen Khoa >Diem, head of the organising board, read an opening speech and President Tran >Duc Luong made a speech highlighting the revolutionary process of 55 years of >national construction and defence. Representatives of 54 nationalities of >Vietnam and young pioneers took the lead of the parade. Following them were >the people�s armed forces including ground troops, anti-aircraft and air >forces, border guards, navy, commandos and people�s police forces and the >Mekong River Delta woman guerillas. Then representatives of governmental >agencies, unions and branches marched past the rostrum. _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
