Typescript diary by Mark Sommer about his trip with three other students, Naomi Jaffe, Jon Stielstra, and David Tobis to North Vietnam in May 1968. In addition to details about their travels via Paris, France; Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); and Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the diary covers their stay in Hanoi at the Thong Nhat (Hotel of Reunification), their many formal meetings and informal escapes to explore Hanoi, and their trips to various villages in the Hà Bắc and Thái Bình provinces. Sommer’s reflections contain observations about politics, propaganda, education, social customs, living conditions, history, religion and more at both the local and global scale, in addition to accounts of more personal thoughts and transformations. Sommer worked at the Institute for Policy Studies and for the Liberation News Service (LNS), and parts of the diary were reprinted as a story in LNS packet #86, in June 1968.
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