HANOI, Vietnam --- Vietnam's former Communist Party leader Do Muoi, a revolutionary who broke out of a French prison and later led the controversial push to dismantle private businesses after the Vietnam War, died late Monday at age 101, officials said. Muoi, a party member for nearly 80 years, passed away in a military hospital in Hanoi following a long illness, the government and state media said. "Comrade Do Muoi... made many great contributions to the revolutionary cause of the party and the nation," the official state-run Vietnam News Agency said Tuesday. Born in Hanoi in 1917, Muoi joined Ho Chi Minh's communist revolution at age 19, eager to expel Vietnam's French col...
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