Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran correspondent who covered Ho Chi Minh, Charles de Gaulle and Mao, Wilde had never before seen a world heavyweight title bout. Reports Wilde: "Being with Ali is like being in a cage with a Bengal tiger. You never know what he is going to say or do." While Wilde was working in Las Vegas, Reporter Peter Ainslie was gathering information on Ali from boxing figures in the East...
When Ali lost, Wilde was reminded of another defeat he had witnessed: "It brought back memories of the Foreign Legion leaving Viet Nam in 1954 in tanks and the conquering Viet Minh coming in on foot." Adds Wilde: "Ali was too old. He bled, but he left with honor. He's got that quality of the immortals that fought in Troy. He's an Ajax...
...Here is a friendly protrait of a man until recently barred from the United States, now once again in circulation to sell his new book. Seidman describes Burchett as a war correspondent better able to understand the Vietnam War than American reporters because of his intimacy with Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong, and as a life-long supporter of popular revolutions around the world...
...account of such indecency might spoil her agreeable picture of Burchett, and this pleasant "peripatetic fellow" might have seemed better worth contempt than an encouraging column. But it is time that American supporters of Ho Chi Minh and his successors gave up the delusion that the barbaric tyranny under which all Vietnam now groans, and which the ill-managed American effort bravely tried to spare the south, is tempered by any particular humanity. James W. Muller...
WILFRED BURCHETT does not look like a radical journalist. In fact, he looks more like a conservative businessman. But when he opens an interview by pointing to a nearby poster of Ho Chi Minh and says, "Ah, my good friend," it becomes easier to recognize in him the man who has been covering revolutionary movements sympathetically since the late...