Word: dinh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most insidious impact of Viet Nam has been the erosion of trust and confidence in authority. It began at the White House, perhaps in the U.S. complicity in the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. The endlessly repeated official optimism about Viet Nam had dangerous consequences. Always, the "corner had been turned," the end was in sight; stick it out a little longer. In 1969 Henry Kissinger told war protesters, "If we have not ended the war by six months from now, you can come back and tear down the White House fence." Writes Anthony Lake, a young Foreign...
Western journalists and diplomats who have recently visited North Viet Nam all report that the country is a land of contrasts. While in some tiny rural communities life proceeds with undisturbed serenity, in cities like Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa and Vinh, where destruction is almost total, traditional patterns of living have been completely disrupted. Foreign observers agree, however, that the U.S. raids have not crushed the morale of the North Vietnamese or weakened their determination to carry on at all costs. Says Jean Sainteny, a former diplomat who established the French mission in Hanoi in 1954 and has returned...
...Survival in the countryside: "For some reason, Americans don't bomb ferries. Every bridge I saw in North Viet Nam was destroyed, but the ferries were safe. Once the planes came when I was on a ferry in Nam Dinh. 'Don't jump,' said my guide, 'or you will die from the concussion like a fish in a river where grenades are tossed...
...Industry: "The Nam Dinh textile mill has been bombed for the past five years, but its machines continue to produce clothes for the country. Fifty miles from the gutted factory foundation stands a thatched farmhouse under a grove of trees. Outside there are water buffalo and other animals. Inside there are rows of Chinese looms powered by a small generator. Both the clothes and the farm products are moved at night to the city...
...Viet Cong had recently broken contact in the province, and that no one really knew where they were. In the American effort to eliminate this elusive, wandering enemy -numbering 5,000 by the officer's estimate-the bombs are dropping night and day on the friendly Vietnamese of Dinh Tuong, who can only do their best to stay out of harm...