Vietnam Moves toward Pragmatism.

Discusses the plan of the Vietnamese government in 1987 to use the decisions taken at the sixth party congress as a springboard to surmount its difficulties. Planned renovations that will eliminate shortcomings and put the Vietnamese revolution back on course; Highlights of the December 1986 national congress of the Vietnamese Communist party (VCP); Problems in the areas of foreign affairs and domestic policy; Effects of the Leninist model of bureaucratic centralism patterned after that of the Soviet Union.