Word: minh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vietnamese army (Viet Minh). U.S. officials reason that the pool of 90,000 South Vietnamese who went north after Viet Nam's 1954 partitioning has run dry, hence Northerners are being thrown into the fight by the Reds. But the blatant sending in of Northerners also means that Hanoi, which has tried to pretend that it was not really directing the war in the South, is, in the grim words of one U.S. official, "ready to take off the eighth veil...
Before long, "suppressive fire" became something else. Not waiting to be shot at, U.S. jets began blasting Red targets-mainly along Route 7, the principal convoy link from Communist North Viet Nam to the Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs...
...objective of the strike near Ban Ban was confined solely to Laos. The bridge over the Nam Mat was instrumental in maintaining the flow of Red supplies to the Pathet Lao-the stretch of Route 7 that was hit is too distant to form part of the Ho Chi Minh trail to the south. But the demonstration of U.S. power would undoubtedly have its positive psychological effect in South Viet Nam, where there is concern that the U.S. might pull...
...Chicago's Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau joined the ranks of 17 lawyers, authors, ministers and academicians who recently published an open letter to President Johnson urging a similar course. Morgenthau concedes that the Hanoi Communists might then take over in the South, but contends that Ho Chi Minh would turn into a Tito-type Red, independent of Peking...
Since the same decree would also retire Big Minh, Khanh threw in with the Turks, joined them in organizing a 20-general "Council of the Armed Forces," with the stated purpose of improving discipline...