Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mountain anchors the northwest corner of South Viet Nam's A Shau Valley, since 1966 a major infiltration route for Communist forces from the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos to the coastal cities of northern I Corps. It is a mountain much like any other in that part of the Highlands, green, triple-canopied and spiked with thick stands of bamboo. On military maps it is listed as Hill 937, the number representing its height in meters. Last week it acquired another name: Hamburger Hill. It was a grisly but all too appropriate description, for the battle...
...South Vietnamese government affect the Paris talks, so, too, do the pressures on the leaders of North Viet Nam. Are the North Vietnamese really weary of the war? Have the tremendous losses suffered by Hanoi's army in the South placed a burden on Ho Chi Minh's freedom of action? Do the North Vietnamese now want peace badly enough to make significant concessions...
...public opinion to their own advantage, the American negotiators have only the scantiest information about the mood of North Viet Nam or how that mood might affect the Communists' bargaining position. About all that U.S. policymakers can do is ponder the clues that slip out of Ho Chi Minh's secretive land by means of foreign visitors, an occasional defector, and the North's own radio broadcasts...
...ways to eavesdrop on the superspy-and stumbled into his story. Wandering into the kitchen, Srodes was amazed to discover Helms' speech being amplified through a kitchen intercom so that the help would know when to clear tables without disturbing speakers. In his talk, Helms described Ho Chi Minh as "an utterly cold-blooded individual, not at all a kindly uncle," called the Kremlin leadership "morally bankrupt" and claimed that the National Liberation Front had "given up any hope of winning the war on the battlefield." To make sure that he would be first on the wire with...
...such genteel allusions! The renegade New Journalism had issued its Challenge! The old guard was quick to react. And so, in the case of the aforementioned Tom Wolfe, we offer a few character references. From Joseph Alsop, came the disclosure that Tom Wolfe was an agent of Ho Chi Minh and campus disorders. Simultaneously, Dwight MacDonald--one of the "walking dead" himself--saw affinities between Wolfe, Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and your run-of-the-mill kamikaze pilot. Finally, in an effort to eliminate superficial contradictions while injecting a needed sense of perspective, Walter Lippmann categorically declared: "Tom Wolfe...