Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) asked him, "In Vietnam, if Ho Chi Minh had not been a communist, then, our whole position would have been different...
...human shields, pushing from 1,000 to 4,000 people ahead of them in four separate marches. In Hué, U.S. Marines found two executed Americans, their testicles cut off. The North Vietnamese units who took Hué were ac companied by political commissars wearing gold-colored Ho Chi Minh buttons and special arm bands. Armed with complete dossiers and photographs of government officials to be arrested and executed, they methodically went from house to house with clipboards and notebooks, looking for their quarry...
...French banned the party, and Giap-together with scores of other Communists-fled to China. There he met Ho Chi Minh and became a charter member of a group that the French will long remember: the Viet Minh. His assignment, based largely on his blackboard battlegrounds, was to organize Ho's ragtag guerrillas into a fighting army. That was in 1941, and Giap has been in charge of the army ever since...
...powerful Politburo members-whose pro-Peking sentiments were resented by the strongly nationalistic Giap-kept him well down in Hanoi's Communist pecking order. Although he is North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, military commander and Vice Premier-and a popular hero second only to Ho Chi Minh-Giap has still not risen above sixth place in his party's official hierarchy...
...acted In recent years to assert North Korea's independence, slipping out of China's orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors. Kim has built around him self a cult of personality that is exceeded in the Communist world only by Mao Tse-tung's, and he personally sets the tone of toughness and arrogance that shows up so regularly in North...