Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, said the Vice President, the U.S. has had contact with the Ho Chi Minh regime-"through third parties" and at times "directly." Typical of Hanoi's response was a statement last week by Truong Chinh, a top party official, denouncing U.S. peace overtures as a "crafty trick...
...retrial in Hartford, Conn., last week, Mitchell's lawyers wanted to call a variety of witnesses, including a U.S. Navy pilot now a prisoner in North Viet Nam. Ho Chi Minh, it was said, would release him to testify. The defense also wanted to call government officials from Hanoi, Ralph Schoenman, a Brooklyn expatriate who is chief lieutenant of Bertrand Russell's "better-Red-than-dead" campaign in London, and Staughton Lynd, the Yale assistant professor of history who, like Schoenman, recently visited North Viet Nam (and last week brought suit in Washington to win back the passport...
Although Ambassador Thai once advised Ho Chi Minh, he now represents Saigon in a war against the Communist; and although he was once a high level minister to Diem, he now belongs to a regime that helped eliminate Diem. This facility of making contrary things seem compatible extends even to his dress. During our interview in the Quincy House guest suite, the Ambassador wore a continental black suit with green socks, a blue tie, and oxblood shoes; yet he still looked natty. Nor did he find it contradictory to attribute the stability of the Ky regime to the cooperation...
...their families and their 20 green-bereted American Special Forces advisers, A Shau in the best of times was an uneasy home. A barbed-wire and earthen-walled fortress bordered by a small airstrip, A Shau stood deep in Viet Cong-controlled territory not far from the Ho Chi Minh trail on the Laotian border. The camp existed for only one reason: to monitor traffic coming down the trail. Over the months, a kind of truce between the local Viet Cong and the Special Forces had evolved: live and let live by leaving each other alone. The truce worked until...
During the war, Lacouture twice met Ho Chi Minh (whom he calls "a shrewd comedian") and subsequently wrote the biography of this "pictureque and peculiar personality." When Ho dies Lacouture expects a bitter power struggle among his four lieutenants...