Word: giap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...China, where other Vietnamese exiles gathered round him. In February 1930, after a series of meetings in and near Hong Kong, Ho was able to reconcile the wildly divergent ideas of his fellow exiles and form the Indochinese Communist Party. With him during the China years were Le Duan, Giap and Pham, all brilliant and promising young...
...Vietnamese possess a serenity rarely seen in Asia. They always seem to be fighting an invader or a natural calamity. The Mongols, the Chinese and the floods were all defeated. More earth was moved in constructing the Red River dikes than in building the Great Wall of China. General Giap once proudly said that the Vietnamese were the only people to stop the Mongols. 'We will be the only ones to stop the Americans in the 20th century,' he added...
...more of the 120,000-man North Vietnamese force that pushed into South Viet Nam has been killed or wounded-primarily by air strikes -and that all but 100 or 200 of the approximately 600 tanks with which the Communists began the offensive have been destroyed. "If I were Giap," declared one American general, "I'd begin to wonder how I was going to extricate myself...
What happens next? The North's Vo Nguyen Giap has, in addition to his forces outside South Viet Nam, at least 80,000 men left within the country. Unless President Thieu and his forces can keep the North Vietnamese from forming up in battle strength again-or some sort of tentative cease-fire is agreed upon-most U.S. advisers in Saigon fully expect the North Vietnamese to strike once more, perhaps between mid-July and mid-September...