Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implementation of Diem's agrarian "reform" measures in 1957 coincided with the institution of a wholesale terror campaign throughout the countryside. These programs reinstated the landlords who had been removed by the Viet Minh, reinstituted rent, and at the same time failed to provide the peasants with any security of land tenure. All those peasants who had benefited from the Viet Minh reforms or who had supported the resistance movement against the French were considered "subversives" and, like Diem's other political opponents, were either murdered or subjected to torture and confinement in concentration camps...
...peasant' victims of this terrorism revolted. They were led by former members of the Viet Minh who lived in South Vietnam and by leaders of other political groups attacked by Diem This movement now controls most of South Vietnam. There is no evidence that the Hanol regime is supplying economic or military aid to the South Vietnamese movement. In October, 1963, the Baltimore Sun reported an official U.S. estimate of the sources of Viet Cong arms, which indicated that only one out of fifty weapons came from the Communist bloc. Most of the equipment was American and had been captured...
...only alternative to Ho Chi Minh which the U.S. has thus far offered the South Vietnamese peasantry has been increasing brutal oppression. If the American government were to withdraw now, the Communist-led peasant movement would gain control of South Vietnam. This move would not only give the peasants what they have sought since 1945, but would also offer the country the possibility of economic development, something that neither the United States nor the South Vietnamese landlords have been able to effect. If the United States is concerned about its "strategic interests" in Southeast Asia, it should offer the South...
When U.S. jets began hitting North Viet Nam last week, the most surprised Communist of all was probably Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There he sat in Hanoi, exchanging pleasantries with North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and chatting desultorily about possible Soviet military aid. Then-bang!-bombs were falling only 250 miles away. Aleksei was on the spot, and his position brought into sharp focus the whole question of Communist-bloc relations...
When the Viet Minh were waging their bloody battle against the French, Red China constructed a road and rail network into North Viet Nam. Since then, blue-clad Chinese laborers have been hard at work on roads linking Yunnan and Laos. With the aid of these routes, the Red Chinese colossus is believed mobile enough to move twelve divisions-about 120,000 men-from China to Hanoi in a month's time...