Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wake of Nixon's announcement about sealing North Vietnamese ports and borders while offering new peace terms, columnists and editorialists responded last week with more than the usual thunder pro and con. Much of the language on both sides was tougher than usual. Some of it sounded as if Armageddon lay just over the horizon...
...have done over the past 15 years has contributed to destroying the integrity, the rationality and the will of the people in South Vietnam while building up the commitment to national reunification in the North. We have trained a few people at the top of the South how to con us into great concern over the consequences of their defeat and therefore continuing support of their survival. Our leaders for 15 years have operated out of fear of being held responsible for a debacle (e.g. "who lost China"), and the false hope that they could create a regime that could...
...con artists in South Vietnam are not all venal. Some are; but many are just trying to exist in a terribly confused setting. What would happen to them if the North Vietnamese take over? The more corrupt, who have already made their fortunes, would probably flee, and wisely so. The rest would stay and try to make their peace with the new regime. I am sure that some of them would be killed and some imprisoned, but probably not many. There was no mass slaughter in the North in 1955 and 1956. Most Vietnamese with strong feelings about political freedom...
...reform" the prisoners at Con...
Deep in my heart I remember night at Con...