Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still the civil war went on. Three hundred Communist Viet Cong guerrillas escaping the flooded south clashed in a bloody fight with government troops and civil guards. In the Mekong Delta region, a Communist band stormed the military outpost of Minh Duc, inflicting "heavy" losses on the defenders. Only 18 miles from President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital of Saigon, a U.S. military adviser on a training patrol with Vietnamese Rangers was wounded by a Viet Cong sniper. In the jungle north of the capital, a 500-man paratroop battalion was ambushed at the end of a three-hour...
Communist leaders from the West quickly joined the chorus. But Chou En-lai was not totally friendless in the Palace of Congresses. North Viet Nam's wisp-bearded Ho Chih Minh and North Korea's chunky Kim II Sung refused to join Khrushchev in condemning Red China by denouncing Albania...
...types of Communists came to listen: comrades from small Russian villages, café-sophisticated Parisians, bamboo-tough agitators from Asia. Eager crowds awaited such stalwarts as Viet Minh's Ho Chi Minh and Red China's Chou Enlai, Astronaut Gherman Titov, Lieut. Colonel Mikhail Voronov (billed as "the man who shot down the U-2") was there, and so, imprisoned in a vast new bust that stared across Sverdlov Square, was the old Russian-hater who started it all, Karl Marx...
...attack may well be the signal for a new Red drive against South Viet Nam, part of an overall, constant movement to infiltrate and encircle the whole area (see map). The Viet Cong guerrillas get their seasoned cadres and supplies from Communist North Viet Nam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which parallels the borders of neighboring Laos and Cambodia. There is no interference from Laos, which may even be a supplier, since daily flights of Soviet Ilyushin planes land on the Communist-held Plaine des Jarres to disgorge arms for the 20,000-man Pathet Lao army. Neutral Cambodia...
Anger & Pride. Then came Indo-China. There, once questioning an intelligent, Paris-educated national who was now fighting for the Communist Viet Minh, Larsan heard a criticism of France that was hard to deny: it was "too generous with us and too hard . . . too intelligent and too stupid." France was perfectly willing to pass on its culture, but Frenchmen were never really willing to accept natives as equals, and so, as in all colonial rule, "a moment comes when there's too much accumulated anger on one side and too hard a carapace of pride on the other...