Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitors report that the most visibly active man in Hanoi these days is Premier Pham Van Dong, 60, who runs North Viet Nam on a day-to-day basis for Ho Chi Minh. Neither Dong nor Ho seems likely to relax many of the arrangements necessitated by the bombing. They cannot, of course, be certain that the raids will not resume...
...sanctuary and can operate with relative impunity. One is the A Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by the North Vietnamese two years ago when they overran a U.S. Special Forces camp and has been held by them ever since. The other is the U Minh Forest deep in the Delta, a Viet Cong domain since the end of World War II. Last week U.S. airpower-with, in one instance, a major assist from nature-was put to work to destroy those sanctuaries...
...Hanoi to abet peace talks nor the possibility that the Communist forces were so shattered by their recent losses that they could not fight at all. Instead, there was every indication that the Communists were simply hiding out while they got resupplied for fresh offensives. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail poured a steady stream of North Vietnamese trucks, headlights brazenly ablaze in the night. The infiltration of men from the North is running far above the usual estimates of 6,000 to 6,500 a month-perhaps as much as twice that number. From February to mid-April...
Ominous Threat. Chanting their war cry, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh!", students, many of whom wore protective helmets and carried heavy clubs, went on rampages in virtually every major German city. Almost everywhere they went, they blockaded and sometimes stoned the local printing plants of conservative Publisher Axel Springer, whose newspapers, notably the mass-circulation Bild-Zeitung, have denounced their restive leftist tendencies. The students also broke store windows, erected barricades across streets and fought bitter pitched battles with police. The violence was worst of all in West Berlin, where a mob of 3,000 young revolutionaries broke almost every...
...Russell, 95. There is enough of the stuff (150,000 items) to fill dozens of trunks-work sheets of Russell's milestone thought in philosophy and mathematics, his voluminous correspondence with such pen pals as Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Albert Einstein and Ho Chi Minh. Record price...