Word: cong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiators will enter an even thicker diplomatic jungle. General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, expects Hanoi to start right off with a demand for a cease-fire in place-a move opposed by most policymakers in Washington and Saigon because it would leave the Viet Cong in control of too much territory. Others foresee serious talks on a mutual troop withdrawal...
...pole. "Object" is used advisedly: though it was seen by hundreds of people and police and examined on film by the Walker staff, no one can yet say what it was. It has been described as a "black flag of anarchy," a "red flag" and a "Viet Cong flag." Some witnesses state it was a suit of red underwear or a red armband or a rag. On films of the incident, it appears to be "a knotted red cloth or a girl's bright red slip." Police, after a hard fight, pulled down the object, but not even...
...South Vietnamese delegation coming to the Paris peace talks would like the name of a good little bistro where the Bordeaux wine and the Camembert cheese are supportables, they could always ask the Viet Cong. No sooner had Lyndon Johnson announced the bombing halt last month than representatives of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong, descended on Paris proclaiming their status as "equal partner" with the U.S., the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese. While the South Vietnamese dithered over whether to attend the talks, the Front's representatives in Paris quickly...
...help shed the image that the Viet Cong are only jungle fighters in black pajamas, the Front pointedly named a chic woman to head its delegation. She is Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, 41, a member of the N.L.F. Central Committee and vice president of the South Viet Nam Woman's Liberation Union. A lifelong revolutionary who was first jailed by the French in 1950 for leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo...
...enhance the N.L.F.'s aura of independence from Hanoi, Madame Binh and her five colleagues have taken special pains to dissociate themselves publicly from the representatives of North Viet Nam. She whisks about Paris in a rented black Citroen DS-21 flanked by two motorcycle policemen; the Viet Cong flag, a yellow star against a field of red and blue, flaps conspicuously from the fender. Her limousine has stopped at the Quai D'Orsay, where she paid a courtesy call on Herve Al-phand, former French Ambassador to the U.S. and now secretary-general of the French foreign...