Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communists claim to have extracted more than 20 "confessions." Ho Chi Minh still believes that he will win the war by default, and the apparent aim of his prisoners' confessions is to convince the world that U.S. fighting men are sick of the war and guilt-racked over their "criminal" behavior in bombing North Viet...
...Minh [North Vietnamese] and the Viet Cong," said Sihanouk, "the Americans have condemned us. But now the Khmer Viet Minh [Cambodian Communists] have returned their gratitude by saying that I am a traitor and a country seller." He mournfully announced that Cambodia must prepare to fight the ungrateful Reds in the north, added that the country might have to close its embassies abroad to buy arms. After all, he said, "how can we ask China and Russia for ammunition to fight the Khmer Reds?" As for the U.S., "with the Americans we absolutely do not want a reconciliation." None...
...with little more success-to convince the world that this is indeed his aim. Abruptly, and to his own surprise, the President last month got an assist from the adversary. By a vituperative rejection of the latest U.S. peace proposal, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh displayed unmistakably his own hawk's plumage. Last week U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, long a stringent critic of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, was also rudely rebuffed...
...leaders are opposed to the President on the war. Nevertheless, Brooke noted that "those most familiar with the East Asian mentality are convinced that the enemy still waits, still aspires to victory through collapse of the American will. Let there be no doubt in the mind of Ho Chi Minh or anyone else that the American people will persevere in their fundamental support of the South Vietnamese...
...that he has gleaned on twelve trips abroad since 1961. Before minisuited Chris Noel, the G.I.s' disk jockey in Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 25), could even flutter her eyelashes, Yorty turned to a map of Southeast Asia and launched into Poli. Sci. 101, touching on the Ho Chi Minh trail, North and South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. His prescription for ending the war: escalation...