Vietnam leader receives a mixed reception in Boston visit
Protesters, top officials greet prime minister
 Phan Van Khai stopped in Harvard Yard to rub the statue of John Harvard yesterday. (Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan) Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan |
Phan Van Khai, Vietnam's 71-year-old Communist prime minister, ventured into the heart of Boston's educational, political, and economic establishment yesterday, huddling with the presidents of Harvard and MIT, lunching with Governor Mitt Romney and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and paying tribute to the city where Ho Chi Minh came to study and work as a baker 94 years ago. (Full article: 970 words)
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