Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Assistance Teams (PAT) are giving selected villages a measure of protection and some civic-action aid. Other cadres sound out local needs, gathering intelligence in the process. Nor is the government ignoring propaganda: it has put up posters in the Northeast showing Mao Tse-tung and Ho Chi Minh hovering over a map of Southeast Asia, stretching their fingers toward Thailand...
Dwight Macdonald, the bearded literary critic, was aghast at the barroom bathos, but failed to argue Mailer off the platform. Macdonald eventually squeezed in the valorous observation that Ho Chi Minh was really no better than Dean Rusk. After more obscenities, Mailer introduced Poet Robert Lowell, who got annoyed at requests to speak louder. "I'll bellow, but it won't do any good," he said, and proceeded to read from Lord Weary's Castle. By the time the action shifted to the Pentagon, Mailer was perky enough to get himself arrested by two marshals. "I transgressed...
...clear that anyone who rides the edges of the main political, social and cultural roads is far more likely to get an invitation than those who straddle the center line. The most desirable speaker, if only he were available, insists one Berkeley student leader, would be Ho Chi Minh. Almost as good, a Harvard student sighs sadly, would have been an other Communist, the newly deceased "Che" Guevara...
...Cheats." Still, the game has proved so popular that 32 stations in the U.S. are now polling their audiences on everything from Ho Chi Minh to miniskirts, world trade to the World Series. When Station KSTR of Minneapolis-St. Paul asked whether the clergy should take part in civil rights marches, the crush of calls jammed the station's lines and short-circuited the switchboard of the nearby Midway Hospital. Of the 4,326 callers who did get through, 62% held that clergymen should stay in the pulpit and off the pavement...
...strains the mind, however, to imagine that when the United States quashes Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong, American bodies will be any safer from amphibious attacks from other "third world" powers. But it is not impossible that LBJ has decided to use the Vietnam war budget to provide secret funds for a new network of underwater electronic barriers in the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Rio Grande to halt all future North Vietnamese infiltration...