Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time he reached Communist North Viet Nam and got another welcome from President Ho Chi Minh, Souvanna was grandly ordering the Vientiane "rebels" (meaning the present Laotian government) to send a delegation to his "capital" of Xiengkhouang, in central Laos, to discuss the cease-fire and the "broadening of the government...
Educated as a civil engineer in Saigon, Thao fought nine years with the Communist Viet Minh against the French. But he quit the Viet Minh shortly after the Geneva peace conference in 1954, partly because he is a Roman Catholic (his brother is still a Communist and currently North Viet Nam's Ambassador to East Germany). And when his former comrades-in-arms started terrorizing South Vietnamese villages, Thao joined the army against them...
...Western position in Laos tottered strategists began to look to the next line of defense. They did not have far to look. Down Laos' spiny eastern border runs what is called the Ho Chi Minh trail, which North Viet Nam's ex-guerrilla President used in his fight against the French. Last week there was almost as much activity along the trail as there was in Laos, as the Communists pushed supplies and reinforcements to the jungle fighters who are battling to take over South Viet Nam-a far richer prize than Laos...
Grubby & Cheerless. Ho Chi Minh is totally dependent on outside aid. Last week he announced a $2,500,000 grant from tiny Bulgaria and a Czechoslovakian offer to build him four new factories. On his own, he has not been able to lift his economy above the subsistence level...
About the only group that has so far benefited from the revolution is the dongchi, as the Communist cadres are called. Most are veterans of the Viet Minh fight against the French, and many are from the primitive hill tribes. Says Hanoi Newsman Thai Zuy, a Muong tribesman and a veteran of nine years with the Viet Minh: "We were savages. We had no schools, doctors-nothing. The French did nothing to help. Now my mother is eating rice for the first time in her life, and she is learning to read. A railroad has been built to our village...