Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diem's army could only prepare for greater dangers. Captured documents indicated that Ho Chi Minh's Red guerrillas had a major new campaign in the making. Massive new U.S. aid is already arriving (TIME cover, Aug. 4) to equip new battalions of South Vietnamese troops. To get the manpower it needs in uniform, Diem's government last week announced new draft laws extending the present term of military service from 18 to 24 months and ordering 20-year-olds to report for duty...
...China, in the middle '20s, the youthful Vietnamese Communist, Ho Chi Minh, had formed his "Young Vietnamese Revolutionary League," was sending agents and propaganda south to foment trouble in Viet Nam itself. Soon Ho's products were showing up by the bushel in Diem's area. Diem himself was already a fervent nationalist, but he was shocked by the extremist cries for violence. Energetically he went to work arresting local Communists, gathering material for a 15-page anti-Communist booklet, which he distributed throughout his area. Rising rapidly to become a provincial governor at 28, Diem went to work...
Murder Mistake. When World War II came, Ngo Dinh Diem withheld his support from all three of the forces tusseling for control of the country?the Japanese, the French and Ho Chi Minh's Communists, although they all sought his cooperation. At war's end, Ho's agents arrested Diem and hauled him off to the mountains of the north. For good measure, they shot Diem's older brother, Khoi, a provincial chief who had fought the Reds. Months later, Ho personally summoned Diem, demanded that he take a post in the new national government that...
...Communist guerrillas, and often this was more voluntary than forced. The fact was that hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese, naive and illiterate, thought of the rebels not as Communists but as resistants continuing the nationalist battle first started against the French. To these peasants. "Uncle" Ho Chi Minh is still a hero, and under the influence of Viet Cong propaganda, they have become convinced that the U.S. has simply replaced the French as their overlords. All too often, local officials have been appointed by Diem or his brother because of their personal loyalty rather than their efficiency...
...troops in the new, mobile Ranger tactics designed to out-guerrilla the guerrillas. At Nhatrang eight new Ranger companies are learning the tricks: scaling cliffs, making wild leaps on cable pulleys, walking noiselessly in jungle undergrowth, learning how to kill swiftly. It is no secret that the Ho Chi Minh Trail is now a two-way street, for the South Vietnamese now use it to travel north, and Ranger patrols are probing into North Viet Nam to give Ho a taste of his own medicine...