Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marton joined the Army during Christmas 1968 after flunking out of Westehester State University in Pennsylvania because, he says. "I was looking for adventure." After four months of infantry duty--"mostly assaults on Viet Cong way stations along the Ho Chi Minh trail," he says--in Bin Ding province in the Central Highlands, Marton had a "bellyful of adventure" and began to develop an interest in the politics of the Vietnam...
...sure whether he was a spy or not. He never talked to us about conditions in the prison. Most people didn't. The guerilla war was a bad period. Almost everyone in my father's generation fought in the guerilla war. Initially they fought the French under Ho Chi Minh. He was a mild Communist in those days, until he asked the U.S. for help and the U.S. came in on the side of the French. Ho then changed his attitudes, and went to extremes to attract people to his movement...
...moment, the Pendleton refugees were those drawn from the social and intellectual elite. In one of the eight refugee compounds, there were no fewer than 50 medical doctors among the 900 inhabitants. Some had worked for U.S. firms that arranged their evacuation. Others, like Teacher Van Ming Minh, escaped with the help of women who were either married to or going steady with American officials...
...Minh was not a Kaiser or a Hitler, and there were at first no massed armies sweeping over traditional allied lands that made an American response automatic. There was not even a Korean type of open aggression that could trigger an easy and obvious presidential order to counterattack. From Dwight Eisenhower down to Gerald Ford, the Viet Nam decisions were more the stuff of character of a single man than in any other major conflict this nation has fought...
Saigon press center where all foreign reporters were asked to register and agree to abide by the new government's regulations. After that, they were free to keep their old press passes, roam throughout newly dubbed Ho Chi Minh city and interview P.R.G. officials, though no dispatches or photos were allowed out of the country...