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| December 01, 2001 | Doyle, Mary | COPYRIGHT 2001 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR: Hal Colebatch's claim (May and September 2001) that my husband, Val Noone, and I and our family "were given an exclusive farewell by Hanoi ambassador Hoang Bao Son in 1984" is false. His allegations are despicable distortions.

The facts about Ambassador Son's farewell are these. Son was diagnosed suddenly with advanced cancer of the spine, as was clearly stated in my article in Vietnam Today quoted by Colebatch but excluded from his quotation. He was returning from Canberra to Vietnam to die, as he did a fortnight later. This was reported on the same page as my article.

We went to the airport to help this terminally ill person, in a wheelchair, through a difficult stage. Officials of the federal and state governments and Qantas looked after the details of Son's transit through Melbourne, and did so very well. I was then a social worker at the Cancer Institute and, with the approval of my supervisor, happy to contribute to making arrangements go smoothly. In ...

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