Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dates, Hanoi's ambassadors in Prague and Peking both announced that the trials will be held. Toward this end, Hanoi radio reported the establishment of "a committee to investigate war crimes of U.S. imperialists in Viet Nam." As for the ultimate fate of the airmen, Ho Chi Minh sent a message to Socialist Norman Thomas last week promising "humanitarian" treatment, raising the possibility that the pilots' lives would be spared in a propaganda show...
...Minh's air defenders struck back last week. Eleven U.S. warplanes were shot down over North Viet Nam by antiaircraft batteries, MIG-17 jets, and a record barrage of 74 SAM missiles. A sleek new MIG-21 also showed up in North Vietnamese skies with air-to-air missiles that barely missed three American raiders. It was the heaviest week's action of an expanding air war, and it brought to 303 the total number of U.S. airplanes that have now been lost over Viet...
...Sanity." Plainly, Hanoi hopes that by punishing Americans it would help dampen U.S. determination to prosecute the war - or at least discourage continued bombing. Actually, the effect would certainly be precisely the opposite, inflaming the American public and all but eliminating the domes tic dissension that Ho Chi Minh interprets as evidence that the U.S. will pull out of Viet Nam. Indeed, warned Georgia's Richard B. Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, executions of American pilots would "bring about the application of power that will make a desert of their country...
...MINH has switched to Salems, forsaking his usual Philip Morrises and Camels. This interesting piece of news was recently reported by a foreign diplomat in a cable from embattled Hanoi and was duly passed on by his government to the U.S. State Department, which is still pondering its significance. In France, Premier Georges Pompidou recently complained before un meeting of the Society for the Protection of the French Language that it was really a bit much to arrive at Orly Airport and be told by the hôtesse d'air that le Welcome Bureau d'Air France...
...little wonder, then, that many of the trappings of American life-and some of its altitudes-have spread around the globe. Still, Ho Chi Minh certainly does not smoke American cigarettes because they are American ("He didn't change to a French cigarette, did he?" crowed a State Department aide); like millions of others who have made U.S. cigarettes the most universally preferred, he smokes them simply because they are better than most of what is available. Coca-Cola is the universal symbol of Americanization, but it was the distribution, merchandising and advertising techniques of the American company...