Word: cong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capitals, however, believe that any settlement, if it is to succeed, must include participation by the groups that have been doing the fighting. As one U.S. official put it, Smith's attempt to bar the Patriotic Front "is like holding elections in South Viet Nam without the Viet Cong." Declared Nkomo angrily from his base in Zambia: "As far as we are concerned, the war continues...
...protrait of a man until recently barred from the United States, now once again in circulation to sell his new book. Seidman describes Burchett as a war correspondent better able to understand the Vietnam War than American reporters because of his intimacy with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong, and as a life-long supporter of popular revolutions around the world...
...were ideal-no real deadlines, the freedom to travel wherever military transport would take him-and his timing was fortuitous. His year in the country coincided with some of the war's fiercest struggles-Tet and the battle for Hue, the siege at Khe Sanh and the Viet Cong's May 1968 Saigon offensive. Although he regularly cursed his own bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that the war's "secret history" must exist there: "Somewhere on the periphery of that total Viet Nam issue whose daily reports made...
...fantasy and science fiction," although Fast calls the most recent, Time and the Riddle, "my Zen stories." In these books he cuts loose and plays with absurdities. One tale relates how an American general in Vietnam, "Old Hell and Hardtack Mackenzie," accidentally shoots down an angel while blasting Viet Cong with his machine gun. Another tells of a hole that appears in the floor of a fourth-story apartment in Los Ahgeles, and how a sunlit pasture reaching as far as the eye can see appears on the floor below...
...unecessary extreme in his repression of human rights, claiming that the country must be unified against the North, but Park believes this is the way to keep himself in power. Although his support is weakening, the South Koreans' unity against the North is not. Unlike the Viet Cong, who knew that South Vietnam was internally weak and spiritless in its fight against northern communism, Kim II Sung knows very well of the solidity of the opposition in the South. If he is plotting to take over the South before he dies, as Zagoria so weakly argues, he had better have...