Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer monsoon broke over leafy Luang Prabang in a deluge. Huddled in steaming rubber capes, the French Union troops waited for the expected Viet Minh Communist attack. It did not come. The valleys beneath the great frowning mountains ran rivers of mud, but no Communist soldier waded them, nor was there one to be seen anywhere. Laotians, worshiping in the temple of the celebrated Golden Buddha, had predicted that the Communists would never capture the sacred city of Luang Prabang. Had their predictions proved true...
...French sought more material explanations for the sudden vanishing of the Viet Minh. The reason might be military: in their rapid, 150-mile run through Laos, the Communists may have overtaxed their strength and their supply system, and were thus in no shape to tackle fresh French reinforcements flown in from Hanoi. Another possible explanation was political: that Moscow and Peking had misjudged world interest in the long-planned invasion of Laos. The world's outcry was jeopardizing the Reds' peace offensive, therefore they belatedly called off the attack and withdrew until a more propitious time...
...disturb its serenity, comes the ragged backwash of war, refugee Laotians and Thais, men from the hills, a few weary, bearded soldiers, the remnant of overtaken outposts, who have escaped over jungle trails or by floating down chutelike rapids on improvised rafts. Behind them come five Viet Minh columns, the nearest now within sight of us. They have traveled fast, but they have not had an easy passage. On the way in, we saw Hellcat and Bearcat fighters filling the tight green valleys with the orange-red bursts and the soot-black smoke of napalm. Now the sound of bursting...
...Sihanouk Varman, visiting New York a fortnight ago, had a warning for the free world: unless the French give his people more independence "within the next few months," there is real danger that they will rebel against the present regime and become a part of the Communist-led Viet Minh. Said he: "They do not want to die for the French...
...where it has a long frontier with Red China and Laos. Here Burmese, Red Chinese and Li Mi's Nationalist Chinese mix like the colors of a dangerous kaleidoscope. If they can fight their way to the Mekong River at the border of Laos and Burma, the Viet Minh Communist forces of Ho Chi Minh will be in a position to strengthen the anti-government forces in Burma...