Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called "the Blue-Eyed Sorcerer" and "the Icebox" by the Vietnamese, who respected his courtly patience but feared his power. "Ah, if we had had a Vietnamese like him to put up against Ho Chi Minh," officials used to lament, "how very different things might have been...
...Administration's reasoning was that North Viet Nam had already moved extensive military supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the past three months. Perhaps now, with the rainy season due to begin before very long, the North Vietnamese might be prepared to settle some of the disputed points that were not resolved by the Paris agreement. At week's end Hanoi raised some doubts about whether the Kissinger-Tho meeting would be held at all, apparently in an effort to pressure the U.S. into resuming the clearing of mines in North Vietnamese waters. But, with preliminary...
...last week hit Laotian targets for the first time since late February -mightsoon be in action over South Viet Nam once again. For the U.S., that would be an exceedingly risky tactic; in addition to troops and materiel, the Communists have moved SAM-2 missiles down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into territory they control...
Pham Van Dong, the prime minister of North Vietnam, has been a revolutionary for half a century. He helped Ho Chi Minh organize revolutionary groups in the 1930s. These small organizations later blossomed into the Viet Minh, which liberated half of Vietnam from French control...
Youth groups patrol the countryside, repairing bombed out bridges, railways and roads so truck and bicycle convoys can pass during the night. They move earth and heavy stones with their hands. Ho Chi Minh, one of the greatest and most humane political leaders of this century, travels from village to village, squatting on the ground awaiting his turn to speak at political meetings...