Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forest of Darkness. Later that day the Allies made their own offensive thrust. Some 1,200 parachutes popped open in the Delta skies 125 miles south of Saigon as South Vietnamese parachute troops assaulted Viet Cong positions on the edge of the U Minh forest, an enemy sanctuary considered so secure that it even contains rest and recreation facilities for Victor Charlies...
...accordance with Nixon's last will and testament, he is buried in the demilitarized zone of Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh break into tears at the funeral, each offering his handkerchief to the other, and in the grief of the occasion they pledge eternal peace...
This, of course, is what Dean Rusk has been saying all along: that a little "reciprocity" is required from Ho Chi Minh and his colleagues if talks are ever to get started. Ho's response last week was to send a holiday message to the American people, expressing "cordial wishes for peace and happiness," but at the same time blasting U.S. leaders for waging a "criminal...
...President Johnson, U Thant and Ho Chi Minh. Each for different reasons. I. S. MENON, M.D. Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Serious Degradation. Brown, 39, told aviation writers in Washington that the bombing of the North has two principal objectives: 1) "to make it as difficult and as costly as possible" for Hanoi to support troops in the South; and 2) to persuade Ho Chi Minh "that the peace table is preferable to continuation of a war he cannot win." Brown marshaled an impressive array of statistics to prove that the bombing has caused "serious manpower, supply and morale problems" for Hanoi. From March 1965 through last September, said Brown, U.S. bombers have caused a "serious degradation of the North Vietnamese...