Vietnam's 'Appalling' Persecuti>on Activists want Washington to confront Communist leaders for torturing and killing Christians.While Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien wined and dined members of Congress last fall, human-rights advocates were also on the Hill. These watchdogs reported that the Communist government is beating and starving some Hmong Christians, and imprisoning others. Fed up with such abuse, a coalition of Christian and human-rights monitors is asking the United States government to confront Vietnam. Vietnamese officials are increasingly harassing religious believers whom they believe threaten their authority. Minorities targetedAmong Vietnam's 81.6 million people are 6.3 million Christians, including 1.1 million...