Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even Baldwin's estimate of a million troops does not account for the probability of counter-escalation by the Communists. In the past six months, they have matched escalation with escalation and there is little reason to think they will stop now. For Ho Chi Minh, the battle in the South represents only the latest phase of a twenty-year struggle for national independence. Should the U.S. decide to double or triple its commitment of troops, Hanoi would very likely send considerably larger detachments of its 450,000-man army into the South rather than accept defeat...
...Vietnam under the Communists -- and in that eventuality to work with them toward independence from Peking. The Vietnamese still resent their centuries of subjugation to the Chinese; as Senator Fulbright suggests, there is a good possibility that the United States can help build the stage on which Ho Chi Minh plays Tito to Mao Tse Tung's Stalin...
...evidence available to this Government," said Lyndon Johnson, "indicates only continuing hostility and aggressiveness in Hanoi, and an insistence on the abandonment of South Viet Nam to Communist takeover." In his latest and strongest rejection of Washington's peace bid, North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh last week sent a letter to other Communist capitals denouncing the U.S. effort as an "impudent threat" and demanding that the Hanoi-sponsored National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political facade, be recognized "as the sole genuine representative of the people of South Viet Nam." In so doing...
...Hazards. With no U.S. planes to harass them, 200 trucks daily-ten times the pre-pause average-moved war materiel southward. Routes 1A and 15 bustled with daylight traffic headed for Mu Gia pass, gateway to the Laos spur of the Ho Chi Minh trail. Men moved over the trail too-at least 2,500 during the pause, including 1,000 on Christmas Day alone. Some officials in Saigon unofficially numbered the infiltration at as many as 6,000, and they estimate that there are now at least nine North Vietnamese regiments, and possibly twelve, in the South...
...According to a current joke, a G.I. in a Saigon hospital is explaining how he had been wounded. "Well," he says, "I was told that the way to tell a Viet Cong from a friendly Vietnamese is to yell 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' If he shoots, he's a Viet Cong. So I saw this fellow on the road and yelled, To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' and he yelled back, 'To hell with Lyndon Johnson!' We were shaking hands when a truck...