Word: binh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week the stress in public pronouncements was on moderation. Interviewed in Danang, P.R.G. Foreign Minister Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh spoke of building a "peaceful, independent, neutral South Viet Nam"; she even spoke of the possibility that Big Minh "might still have some role to play in the future of Viet...
Even the Communists' ultimate goal, reunification with the North, will probably await a fairly long transition period, about three to five years. Mme. Binh herself last week emphasized that North-South differences "in the economic and political field" will require "a certain period of time to realize reunification." Highly capitalistic and individualistic, the South will no doubt have to undergo some profound changes before it can be successfully assimilated into the socialist, collectivist society of the North. "The North fears the seductive life of the South, compared with the disciplined, austere, spartan life in the North," says one State Department...
Under the Diem regime, Minh gained renown as a brave "soldier's soldier" in the campaign he led in the 1950s against the notorious Binh Xuyen bandits, a kind of Vietnamese Cosa Nostra (also known as the "whorehouse gang") that pillaged the countryside and controlled vice in Saigon. Blunt, athletic and honest, he was given the sobriquet "Big" by U.S. military advisers because he was unusually large for a Vietnamese-nearly 6 ft. tall and 200 Ibs. Minh impressed Diem and in 1958 was appointed the first boss of a field-operations command that coordinated the mounting war against...
...former Saigon lawyer, has been chairman of the N.L.F. since 1960. His main function, however, apparently is to lend credence by his presence to the Communists' claim that the front and the P.R.G. actually are coalitions in which power is shared with nonCommunists. Mrs. Binh was the Viet Cong's chief negotiator in Paris and is one of the movement's most visible and best-publicized representatives. But Western analysts believe that the real power in the P.R.G. is wielded by Phat, a former architect who was the N.L.F.'s vice chairman and chief theoretician...
...allow ARVN more time to regroup and rebuild some of its shattered divisions. Actually, Hanoi has a third option: hoping that Saigon will fall without a fight anyway. "We do not want our compatriots to die if we can obtain our objectives by other means," declared Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the Provisional Revolutionary Government's Foreign Minister...