Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoulder bag and dashing to a waiting helicopter for what may be my last flight out of Saigon, I fished out a copy of the first story I ever filed from Viet Nam. It was dated July 8, 1948. In that year, the Viet Cong were called the Viet Minh, and they were fighting against Vietnamese government troops, French soldiers, foreign legionnaires and black mercenaries from Senegal and Morocco. When I reread that story, my first and last days in Viet Nam seemed somehow indistinguishable. Excerpt: "The French hoped to pull large non-Communist nationalist resistance units away from...
...Last Testament of Ho Chi Minh...
Indeed he was. The final assault on Saigon was code-named the Ho Chi Minh Campaign. When Saigon collapsed, it was promptly rechristened Ho Chi Minh city. In the streets of rejoicing Hanoi, the most frequently exchanged greeting was "Ho Chi Minh muon nam" (Long live Ho Chi Minh...
Propaganda bombast aside, Ho Chi Minh, dead or alive, provided the crucial element in North Viet Nam's astonishing victory. No statesman now alive, except Yugoslavia's Tito and China's Mao, has so shaped his country's destiny. With his skill, cunning, sense of history and unshakable will, he turned a peasant and impoverished country into a force that exhibited fervor and zeal rarely matched in this century...
...courted American intelligence officers in the hope that the U.S. would plead his cause. As Japan collapsed, he proclaimed an independent republic of Viet Nam, but the French, determined to regain the empire, refused to deal with him. After nine years of war, Ho's Viet Minh guerrillas bled France into exhaustion. But at the 1954 Geneva Conference, he was rewarded with only the northern half of the country...