Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like beginning a burglary by deliberately knocking over the garbage cans. As a formidable force of South Vietnamese Rangers, armored, infantry and artillery units assembled at a base in Tay Ninh province northwest of Saigon, Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh's command post issued almost daily bulletins about what targets the ARVN force would hit across the border in Cambodia. Communist staging areas near the town of Snuol were mentioned, as were the Mimot plantation near Krek, the vast Chup plantation, the town of Suong and the enemy-infested banks of the Chhlong River...
...through a rough "transitional" period, and that South Viet Nam's 17.3 million people will soon be both willing and able to earn their own way. That is, of course, a tall order. Even at the peak of the fighting between the French and the Viet Minh during the "first Indochina war," South Viet Nam derived some income from exports of rice and rubber. But now many of the plantations are in ruins, rice is imported from the U.S., and the leading export is scrap metal left behind by the departing U.S. military. Exports bring in a bare...
Other fighter-bombers and B-52 Stratofortresses slammed hundreds of tons of bombs into the underground storage bunkers along the 300-mile Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Soviet Union); these days he usually travels in a closed car with two escort vehicles, all bristling with machine guns. "We passed a huge mural of Che Guevara," reported Correspondent Stevens of the motorcade from the airport. "A year ago there had been a companion mural of Ho Chi Minh. Cubans would only say it had been taken down. They did not know...
Ulam fails to mention that 85 per cent of the estimated 900,000 refugees were Catholics. Often affluent and sympathetic to France, these Vietnamese might indeed have had qualms about Ho Chi Minh's regime, and preferred the Catholic Diem and his family. A devoted campaign by Northern priests strengthened any propensities to emigration. The U.S. played a role as well. According to Bernard Fall, "the mass flight was admittedly the result of an extremely intensive, well-conducted, and, in terms of its objective, very successful American psychological warfare campaign. Propaganda slogans and leaflets appealed to the devout Catholics with...