Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thieu's Political Prisoners of War" [Dec. 25] omits the fact that we Americans are blamed by many South Vietnamese for the widespread imprisonment and torture of innocent people. In a private meeting General Duong Van (Big) Minh told me that "the political prisoner situation has become a scandal which is driving non-Communists into the arms of Communists." One woman who had been tortured almost to death asked me: "Why do the American people do this to us?" I was sick with shame, as all of us would be if we knew the whole story. Commendable...
...ammunition, rather than the usual 200. After hurried training-eight weeks instead of the usual six months-he was marched south and told that he was going to fight in a "great war." Last April his unit crossed into Laos on Route 559-the Ho Chi Minh trail-and moved down the trail from one numbered station to another for nearly three months. Strangely enough, they never encountered any U.S. bombers, but they did come across a unit from Haiphong that had lost about half of its 600 men in an air attack...
...interview with the Moscow weekly "New Times," of November 7. 1970, PRG Ambassador to the USSR Dang Quang Minh said that Nixon's proposals of October 11 of that year...
...Iran, Taiwan and South Korea, into South Viet Nam in an effort to give the ARVN more muscle before a cease-fire goes into effect. The Communists are trying equally hard to beat the deadline by rushing troop reinforcements and as much materiel as possible down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Neither side wants to be at a disadvantage when the dance ends and the fire goes...
...impending settlement has touched off a scramble by both sides to funnel as much equipment as possible to their forces In South Viet Nam before peace breaks out. The U.S. estimates that large amounts of war matériel were moving down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in September and that the flow has increased noticeably in recent weeks. The U.S., too, is taking the utmost advantage of the delay in Paris, rushing to South Viet Nam equipment already authorized and funded by Congress for next year. Explains one Pentagon official: "The agreement allows for one replacement [for each piece...