Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Demilitarized Zone, Giap grew up at a time when the fairly stable 30-year relationship between the French and Vietnamese was coming to an end. At 15, he was taking part in a "quit-school movement" in Hanoi. Before he was 30, he was helping Ho Chi Minh organize his revolution from a base in China. Though he once taught school in Hanoi, Giap was no bookstack scholar. Two years ago, Giap's foster father, a South Vietnamese Red Cross official in Danang, discussed Giap with British Orientalist P.J. Honey. "He was brilliant, extremely interested in warfare along...
...generally regarded as the chief architect of Hanoi's relentless crusade to take over the South. His pre-eminence is underscored by the fact that in recent weeks Hanoi newspapers have taken to calling him "Uncle" Le, an honorary title rarely used since the death of Ho Chi Minh...
...during the struggle against first France, then Japan, and then France again. As a result of such coalescence, such fusion, the leadership of the Vietnamese revolution for independence and nationhood had largely fallen under the control of long indigenous Vietnamese Communists by the mid and late 1940s. Ho Chi Minh was the George Washington of Vietnam, whatever we may think of his politics, though like George Washington he had to struggle against "loyalist" pro-French elements within the bureaucracy, army and intelligentsia...
...stuck on Highway 13. The reason: the terrain was open and flat, ideal for bombing enemy troops and for taking up a defensive position should the North Vietnamese choose to attack. The NVA declined the bait, and only harassed the column while the troops' morale and supplies dwindled. Minh, who has built up a reputation as the most successful of Saigon's generals at avoiding a set battle, kept insisting that he was on the verge of "a great victory." His apparent reasoning: since An Loc had not yet fallen, "our reinforcements saved the city...
...been running this operation, the whole province would have been secure a week ago," fumed one American adviser. "Minh is the most insecure man I've ever seen." Time and again, U.S. and South Vietnamese fighter-bombers cleared an area in preparation for a South Vietnamese advance that never came. That left the choice to the North Vietnamese. As long as Minh refused to move, they could leave a small force behind to keep the An Loc relief column pinned down and slip southwest for an attack on the provincial capital of Tay Ninh-to which elements...