Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rademaekers in Paris and Jerrold Schecter in Washington traced the Kissinger spoor. It turns out that the first Kissinger mission, on Aug. 4, 1969, was set up through Jean Sainteny, a former French commissioner in Hanoi and a longtime intimate of North Viet Nam's late leader, Ho Chi Minh. When it became apparent that more Kissinger flights would be necessary, French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann was approached during U.N. meetings in New York in the fall of 1969, and he agreed to enlist his government's aid in protecting the negotiations. Pompidou cooperated so completely as to order government...
...American-sponsored invasion of Laos last February was ostensibly directed at cutting off the main supply route from North to South Vietnam--the Ho Chi Minh Trail. For years before the invasion the United States had engaged in extensive bombing of the trail; enough bombs have been dropped on it to have rendered the entire U.S. Interstate Highway System impassable, yet the trail has survived...
What is it that makes the Ho Chi Minh Trail so durable? Is it the superior quality of North Vietnamese tarmac? The answer is much simpler--there is no Ho Chi Minh Trail. The name itself was invented by Americans. The Ho Chi Minh Trail is not a trail, but rather an area not under American control; and that area is called Laos...
Kistiakowsky. The idea was to lay the so-called barrier--which had nothing to do with a fence--through the uninhabited jungles through which the Ho Chi Minh trails are cut. We were very uncertain of the feasibility of this scheme. There was a very heated internal debate in August whether we should even present the plan to Mr. McNamara...
...made by McGovern and others. Porter guessed correctly that Hanoi would not affirm McGovern's statement publicly, since such an affirmation would probably have implied acquiescence to the American-orchestrated, one-man election of President Thieu which was to occur in early October. Only in late August had General Minh and Vice President Ky withdrawn from the presidential "race". Thus, at a critical point prior to the October election, Hanoi saw no cause to boost Thieu's stature which remains even today at a very...