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 CIS NO: 90-H381-51
 TITLE: Issues Affecting the Question of U.S. Relations with Vietnam.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+171 p.
 DATE: Nov. 17, 1989
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 101-1             SUDOC: Y4.F76/1:V67/10
 ITEM NO: 1017-A; 1017-B
 LC CARD NO: 90-601006               MC ENTRY NO: 90-13928

 Hearing before the Subcom on Asian and Pacific Affairs and the Subcom on
 International Economic Policy and Trade to review developments in U.S.
 relations with Vietnam.
   Also considers H.R. 2166, to amend the International Claims Settlement
 Act of 1949 to permit currently blocked assets of the former Government of
 South Vietnam to be used to pay U.S. individual and business claims for
 property expropriated by the current Vietnamese Government.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam-US relations; Vietnam Govt blocked assets use for
     payment of US claims
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC
     AFFAIRS. HOUSE; SUBCOM ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY AND TRADE.
     HOUSE; VIETNAM (US-Vietnam relations; Vietnam Govt blocked assets use
     for payment of US claims); FOREIGN.RELATIONS; CLAIMS (Vietnam Govt
     blocked assets use for payment of US claims); INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS
     SETTLEMENT ACT (Vietnam Govt blocked assets use for payment of US
     claims); BUSINESS (Vietnam Govt blocked assets use for payment of US
     claims); EXPROPRIATION (Vietnam Govt blocked assets use for payment of
     US claims); PROPERTY (Vietnam Govt blocked assets use for payment of
     US claims); GOVERNMENT.PROPERTY (Vietnam Govt blocked assets use for
     payment of US claims)
 BILLS: 101 H.R.2166

 90-H381-51 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Nov. 17, 1989 p. 3-56
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     HILLS, RODERICK M. (attorney; also on behalf of)
     LILLICH, RICHARD B. (President, Procedural Aspects of International
        Law Institute)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Background on U.S. individual and business
     claims against Vietnam; support for H.R. 2166; arguments that proposed
     payment of U.S. claims is consistent with international law, citing
     legal precedents.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam Govt blocked assets use for payment of US claims
 DESCRIPTORS: INTERNATIONAL.LAW; CASE LAW; PROCEDURAL ASPECTS OF
     INTERNATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE

 90-H381-51 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Nov. 17, 1989 p. 57-171
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     LAMBERTSON, DAVID F. (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian
        and Pacific Affairs, Department of State)
     YOUNG, MICHAEL K. (Deputy Legal Advisor, Department of State)
     FUNSETH, ROBERT L. (Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
        Refugee Programs, Department of State)
     NEWCOMB, R. RICHARD (Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control,
        Department of Treasury)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Outlook for normalization of U.S. relations
     with Vietnam, focusing on prospects for settlement of the Cambodian
     conflict; overview of programs for Vietnamese refugees seeking asylum in
     the U.S. (related material, p. 92-99); objections to H.R. 2166; analysis
     of blocked Vietnamese assets in the U.S.
       Perspectives on prosecuting Pol Pot and other Khmer Rouge leaders
     under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
     Genocide; issues involved in U.S. relations with Vietnam.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam-US relations; Vietnam Govt blocked assets use
     for payment of US claims
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): CAMBODIA (Vietnam-US
     relations; Khmer Rouge leaders prosecution for genocide); INDOCHINESE
     REFUGEES (Vietnam-US relations); POL POT (Khmer Rouge leaders
     prosecution for genocide); KHMER ROUGE (Prosecution of Khmer Rouge
     leaders for genocide); GENOCIDE (Khmer Rouge leaders prosecution for
     genocide); CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF
     GENOCIDE (Khmer Rouge leaders prosecution for genocide); CRIMINAL
     PROCEDURE (Khmer Rouge leaders prosecution for genocide);
     DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE; DEPARTMENT.OF.TREASURY