Word: indochina
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Despite Communist purges, Indochina's ancient faith lives...
Neither Ho Chi Minh nor the CIA was able to find a way of using Buddhism as a rallying point. The only time Indochina's Buddhists were roused to unified action was in the early 1960s, when harassment by Viet Nam's Catholic minority provoked a series of public demonstrations that helped topple Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...reputation in recent years has been revised and rehabilitated, sometimes rather extravagantly. In the Viet Nam era, liberals like I.F. Stone and Murray Kempton found brilliance in Eisenhower previously undetected by intellectuals; he had resisted the best efforts of his advisers to get him to help the French in Indochina in the weeks before Dien Bien Phu. Despite CIA adventuring around the world, despite the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Iran, despite that sunbathing Marine exercise on the Lebanese beaches in 1958, despite Foster Dulles' fondness for leaning far out over the brink, Eisenhower kept the nation...
...Viet Nam "new great strength" to face its problems, many of which were caused "by collusion between U.S.-led imperialism and Chinese expansionism." Brezhnev responded by agreeing that "China and the U.S. encourage each other in almost everything when it comes to abusing the will of the peoples of Indochina...
...estimated 6,000 Soviet advisers based in Viet Nam. In exchange, Soviet reconnaissance planes land at Vietnamese airports and Soviet naval ships have refueling rights at U.S.-built ports at Danang and Cam Ranh Bay. For Hanoi, Soviet assistance is the key to maintaining its present strong position in Indochina. For Moscow, the partnership keeps China off-balance and helps the Soviets gain influence in all of Southeast Asia. But fiercely independent Viet Nam is no complaisant puppet. Some Western experts believe that Hanoi did not seek prior approval from Moscow before invading Cambodia in December 1978 to unseat...