Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thien, plainly, is not Dienbienphu. The French garrison was 76 min. by air from its supply sources, isolated in a narrow valley over 200 miles from the French stronghold at Hanoi. The French were hemmed in and, after the 56-day Viet Minh siege began, had to be resupplied by parachute drops through dense antiaircraft fire. Con Thien can be resupplied within six minutes by helicopter from Dong Ha, ten miles to the southeast, or by land from Cam Lo, seven miles to the south, when the road is not washed out. The French conceived of Dienbienphu as "the cork...
...Tougher than I Am." Washington officials are convinced that Ho Chi Minh wants no negotiations with the U.S. until after the 1968 elections, hoping that with a change in administrations he might achieve victory. Johnson has warned that "my successor will...
Mincing Machine. In the current political climate, it is questionable how long Johnson can maintain his more-of-the-same stance. Certainly, he has the resources to outlast Ho Chi Minh, whose industries and agriculture are under intense pressure from the bombing. Indeed, some officials wonder that Ho has not taken stock and simply called off the war. If he did, the U.S. might pull out so rapidly that the Communists could take over at their convenience-and it is highly doubtful that any U.S. Administration would ever send troops back to challenge them...
...scalped; damn the Congress to hell." Like a latter-day emissary to Hanoi, a Pennsylvania Tory named Samuel Shoemaker made his way to Windsor Castle and emerged after an interview to proclaim the kind of admiration for George III that occasional U.S. visitors have felt for Ho Chi Minh: "I wished some of my violent countrymen could have such an opportunity. They would be convinced that George III has not one grain of tyranny in his composition. A man of his fine feelings, so good a husband, so kind a father cannot be a tyrant...
...this era, the expansion of Communism is a far more complicated affair than it was in the late 1940s. To take the two most notable examples of late, both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro gained their power as effective opponents of oppressive, reactionary regimes before they set up popular Communist dictatorships. There is little doubt, of course, that they are far less resented by their subjects than were French General Henri Navarre and Fulgencio Batista...