Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles northwest of Hanoi saw a peculiar thing. The once-faint paths through the jungle, though empty, seemed much more clearly marked than before. They were being trodden (as the French discovered later) by 25,000 night-moving Communist coolies carrying arms to well-hidden caches for the Viet Minh guerrillas...
...Viet Minh's General Vo Nguyen Giap had three Red divisions which had lain low for eight months. Last fortnight Giap attacked on a 40-mile front, quickly toppled a handful of mud-and-bamboo French outposts. His main target was the French stronghold of Nghialo (which the Communists had tried vainly, a year ago, to wrest from the late great General De Lattre de Tassigny...
Bloodless Coup. Communist plots soon took away the King's fun. Pardoned by the French, Son Ngoc Thanh returned to Pnompenh. His Pnompenh newspaper, Khmer People Awake, sowed disaffection in the royal army. Viet Minh Communist battalions, 10,000 strong, skirmished along Cambodia's borders, and Son Ngoc Thanh cheered them on. Suddenly last month the King reacted. He closed down Khmer People Awake. Son Ngoc Thanh ducked off to join a band of Red guerrillas...
...three states (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) that make up the French Indo-Chinese Union. Cambodia, too, has come in for its share of strife, at the hands of some 1,800 guerrilla bandits led by an anti-French demagogue named Son Ngoc Thanh. Like Ho Chi Minh's rebels to the north, Son Ngoc Thanh's men are ostensibly non-Communist nationalists, but they are glad to accept Communist help...
...Tarn has been fighting Communists-at the time of the Communist insurrection in October 1930, during a second Red uprising in 1940, and for the last two years as boss of Viet Nam's busy, overworked security police. Two of his three sons were killed by Ho Chi Minh's Reds; the third, Brigadier General Nguyen Van Hinh, a crack pilot, commands the new Vietnamese national army now fighting shoulder to shoulder with the French. Tarn himself is under a standing Viet Minh sentence of death...