Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With North Vietnamese rocket and artillery fire raking their converted tennis-court helipad, TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William Stewart, along with Photographers Dirck Halstead and Mark Godfrey, choppered out of Tan Son Nhut airport last Tuesday shortly before Communist advance units entered downtown "Ho Chi Minh city." Rowan's and Stewart's accounts of the final American evacuation, cabled from the U.S.S. Blue Ridge in the South China Sea, appear in this week's Indochina cover section...
...Viet Cong and North Vietnamese poured into Saigon, raised the flag of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and took into custody South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh and Premier Vu Van Mao. For many Americans, it was like a death that had long been expected, but was shocking when it finally happened...
...domination. The massive, 20-year American struggle to build a stable non-Communist government in South Viet Nam was finally and definitively ended, an all but total failure. When Communist soldiers in Saigon fired salvos into the air and shouted, "Victory! Victory!" the stubborn, inextinguishable dreams of Ho Chi Minh and his heirs in Hanoi were fully realized...
...ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party. He was born to a peasant family in Ha Dong province in the North, joined the Communist Party in the 1930s and spent about five years in a French prison before escaping to China in 1944. A year later he took command of Viet Minh forces in the Red River Delta and in 1946 was made responsible for the political indoctrination of all Viet Minh troops. Dong is considered the man most likely to succeed the ailing Giap, who has been treated for cancer in Moscow...
General William Westmoreland visits, looking for a job and advises Ford to bomb the Ho Chi Minh trail and mine Halphong harbor for a month. Ford replies courteously. "Unfortunately, the law says we can't do that, Westy." Miss America stops by and almost forgets her pocketbook, but the president reminds her, "Better not leave your purse, Shirley. We've got some real bad characters around here." All the president's visitors have their pictures taken by the White House photographers, and Ford makes sure that they all get copies. The president's usual lunch, we learn, is cottage cheese...