Word: giap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would lead to reciprocal talks. And it seems clear that the North Vietnamese are listening-both to him and the current U.S. debate. There even seems to be a remote chance that this will lead to talks sooner rather than later. Hanoi's hard-bitten Defense Minister Giap suggested last week that he is convinced that whoever is elected President in 1968, Lyndon Johnson or his opponent, the war-if it is still going on-is sure to increase in intensity...
...North Vietnamese Military Boss Vo Nguyen Giap...
...seven miles to the south, when the road is not washed out. The French conceived of Dienbienphu as "the cork in the bottle," designed to stop Viet Minh movements into the fertile Red River delta and Laos. But the garrison was ringed by hills that General Vo Nguyen Giap's artillerymen, who outgunned the French 5 to 1, used to murderous advantage...
After a somewhat incongruous interlude-Martha Raye sang two songs from Hello, Dolly!-Westmoreland briefed the guests and alluded once more to antiwar protest back home. He quoted North Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap's comment that the home-front controversy reflected widespread lack of support for the war in the U.S., then told the audience: "I defer to your judgment in this regard. It is the central consideration...
...Viet Nam posed no threat to "the vital interests of the Soviet Union" and "does not have to stop us from finding new ways of dealing with one another." The President spoke barely a week after North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, according to diplomats, flew to the Black Sea, after a two-day layover in Peking, to meet vacationing Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The presence of the Hanoi leaders was never formally acknowledged by the Russians, and just what happened behind the guarded gates of the vacation...