Word: dong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's lineup remains unchanged from last Saturday's game On defense, Crimson coach Bill Cleary has broken up last season's pairing of captain Kevin Hampe and Dong Elliott and instead plays Hampe with Junior Mark Noonan and Elliott with classmate Bob Muse...
...first board, Leverett conducted a successful defense and maintained his advantage over Dong Zaeh throughout the game. But he was unable to stave off a perpetual check, and Zaeh forced a draw...
...North Vietnamese wanted to set deadlines; Oct. 31 was the final date after two postponements. Kissinger did not flatly reject the idea, and over the course of the next few days Nixon sent Hanoi's Premier Pham Van Dong two messages saying that the U.S. would make every effort to conclude the negotiations by that date. But Kissinger insisted repeatedly that the U.S. could not sign unless all parties concerned were agreed. Even so the Administration was eager to move ahead as fast and as far as possible. Though the Oct. 31 deadline meant compressing a three-week process into...
Determination, organization, passion: all were key elements of Ho's extraordinarily complicated personality, as they were of the close little band of men he chose to help lead his crusade. Le Duan, Vo Nguyen Giap, Pham Van Dong-all sworn to create a Viet Nam free of foreign control, all dedicated Communists. But they were Communists of a distinctly nationalist breed. Influenced though they were by the writings of Marx and Lenin, all seemed to know that neither Peking nor Moscow could win their war for them...
Closest to Ho, and perhaps the brightest of all his associates, was Pham Van Dong, now Premier of North Viet Nam. Son of a high-ranking mandarin, Pham was educated in Hué and Hanoi, joined Ho in Canton in 1925. The next year he was sent back to Viet Nam to organize party cells. Arrested by the French in 1930, Pham spent six years at hard labor in a penal colony, then fled to China to rejoin his leader. When Ho was jailed by the Nationalist Chinese from 1942 to 1943, Pham took over the leadership of the independence...