Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prolonged fighting at Xuan Loc was interpreted, in the beginning, as a test of the ARVN's remaining will to fight. "I vow to hold Xuan Loc," declared the 18th Division commander, Brigadier General Le Minh Dao. "I don't care how many divisions the other side sends against me, I will knock them down...
...another new government, this one a "fighting government of unity." Despite that description the new Cabinet included no members of the broadening opposition; the Premier, Nguyen Ba Can, is a bland labor unionist who can be counted on to do the President's bidding. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh demanded that Thieu resign before Saigon "becomes another Phnom-Penh," but the call was not likely to be heeded...
...Crimson's glib assertions is that the refugees are fleeing from war and not from Communism. That is clear: after all, 900,000 Vietnamese came to the south after Ho Chi Minh gained control of the north in 1954. The Crimson's advice to base a judgment of Communist intentions on "statements and actions" is well-taken; one may refer-to the Vietcong assassination lists, the mass murders in Hue in 1968, the thousands of executions associated with rural collectivization of the north (50,000 - 250,000 killed. The Economist April...
...Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...
...rhetoric of the Bicentennial serves quite a different purpose for this country's government than it did for Ho Chi Minh. Instead of glorifying a new struggle, it serves to parody an old one, with a trumped-up consensus which conceals real inequality and conflict. One way to repudiate this attempt at a false consensus is through demonstrations, like the one the People's Bicentennial Commission has called for this Friday night. The Commission's plan for a midnight-to-draw vigil at Concord was unnecessarily theatrical, and its planners' emphasis on vogue phrases about "economic independence," or sending "Wall...