Word: binh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace, I would prostrate myself for a month. In fact, I would kill a pig and give you a feast." The interpreter raised his right hand and said, "Brothers, I wish peace for you all." Immediately two other hands went up, the first clenched, and everybody said it: "Hoa binh. Peace...
...could offer." And they might prove tempting to Hanoi-after the fate of Hué, and possibly of the entire Vietnamization program, is settled on the battlefield. At first, the Communists remained as "insolent" as Nixon had charged. The National Liberation Front's Paris negotiator, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, scoffed: "While we are in a military situation which is favorable to our struggle, he calls for an immediate cease-fire." Celebrating the 18th anniversary of his victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu, North Viet Nam Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap defiantly declared over Hanoi radio...
Actually, the North Vietnamese negotiators gave the U.S. a guarantee that there would be no "communist takeover" or "bloodbath" if Thieu resigned. As Madame Binh said at the public negotiations on Thursday, and the North Vietnamese delegate affirmed...
...Madame Binh's statement merely reflects the reality that non-communists must continue to play a crucial role in South Vietnam. Many of these people have earned enough--thanks to years of U.S. generosity--to form a rural and urban middle class. The PRG knows fully well that it would have to cooperate with these people for there to be any chance to heal South Vietnam's war wounds...
...slender garrison at Kontum were ordering supplies for a two-day siege -two days because, as one adviser said, "You're never going to get enough ammunition into this place to give you automatic weapons fire for much longer." With some 20,000 Communist troops tearing up Binh Dinh province on the coast, it seemed likely that the Communists might try to accomplish one "spectacular" that narrowly eluded them in 1965: slicing the country...