Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first quarters were on the Boulevard President Roosevelt on the western outskirts of Paris, but fighting the traffic from there to the headquarters of the North Vietnamese delegation, in the Red-belt suburb of Choisy-le-Roi, proved nearly as difficult as a trip down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The N.L.F. soon moved to the Chalet du Lac, a rented villa ($1,200 a month) in the sleepy, suburban town of Verrières les Buisson, eight miles southwest of the Paris city limits, but only 15 minutes' drive from the North Vietnamese headquarters, where the two delegations...
Raising the Flag. While Communist main forces lie low, the allies are pushing the war as hard as possible. Bombing of supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos has increased since the bombing halt over North Viet Nam. Hundreds of ground patrols stab out daily to find and fix Communist forces and bring them to battle. The allied pacification effort has been accelerated, with the aim of hoisting as many yellow-and-red South Vietnamese flags as possible before any cease-fire might freeze territorial claims. Saigon wants to add no fewer than 1,000 hamlets...
Amidst the flotsam of rumors, one fascinating tidbit made the rounds in Washington last week. It was that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh was in Peking, presumably explaining to Mao Tse-tung & Co. the reasons for a shift in stance. It was perfectly clear that the Chinese were not at all happy about the prospect of a bombing pause if it involved the slightest concession on Hanoi's part...
...began, Lyndon Johnson told a Democratic luncheon at Manhattan's Waldorf -Astoria: "What I need now is not your curiosity. I need your prayers." Allied officials emphasized that the next move was up to Hanoi, and Hanoi wasn't moving. "You will have to ask Ho Chi Minh," said New Zealand's Holyoake when asked about the prospects of a pause. "At the present time, it rests with Hanoi...
...Minh returns to Saigon, and the present period begins...