Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II, when the French replaced the Japanese and began their drive against the city of Hanoi in December, 1946, Ho Chi Minh appealed to all Vietnamese patriots to resist this latest foreign attempt to re-enslave Indochina. He told the world, "We would rather sacrifice all than lose our country. We are determined not to be enslaved...
...thought appropriate. Thieu's nearly total control of the situation was evident when the frustrated and factious anti-government forces met last week to try to organize a broadly based opposition. They managed only to form a loose committee and named as its chairman General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, who dropped out of the presidential election last month charging that the vote was rigged in advance. Minh did not even bother to attend last week's meeting...
...persuasively argued that the current presidential election would have been farcical even had Duong Van Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky run, because President Thieu's supporters would have rigged the election in his favor. Nevertheless, any election would have been preferable to none at all, if only because the campaigning would have provided an outlet for grievances and opposition policies...
...festival. More than 600,000 fairgoers, including such celebrities as Actress Melina Mercouri, braved intolerable traffic snarls to reach the site. Once there, bourgeois families crowded shoulder to shoulder with party sympathizers wearing Vietnamese coolie hats or sporting FREE ANGELA DAVIS buttons while walking along Ho Chi Minh and Karl Marx avenues...
...know exactly what happened when they put me on the ballot a second time. Mr. Thieu had used all kinds of maneuvers to eliminate me from the race, hoping first that Minh would stay in the campaign. You know, one general told me recently that he was upset by the Thieu maneuvers. So he came down to Saigon and asked Mr. Thieu why he was doing this. And the President told the general he was afraid he would be a loser in a three-way race. That's what Thieu told his closest friend...