Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential candidate must have the signatures of either 40 Deputies and Senators or 100 provincial councilors. It was generally assumed that under such a system Thieu, as the powerful incumbent, would win the support of the majority of legislators and councilors; the popular Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, another candidate, would corner most of the others; and Ky would be crowded out of the race. But the Senate subsequently defeated the bill. Most political observers figured that Thieu. sensing widespread opposition, would not try to override that defeat by again muscling the measure through the Lower House, where...
...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...
...Union, including a description of a meeting in which Mao told Russian Premier Aleksei Kosygin that their dispute would last 10,000 years. Chou said that in 1969, at Kosygin's request, he conferred with the Russian leader for three hours at the Peking airport after Ho Chi Minh's funeral. They agreed to start negotiations over their border dispute and, in effect, maintain the state of nonbelligerent enmity that still exists...
...which Nixon and Kissinger merely inherited from their predecessors. They have broadened and intensified it. And it is not so much that the bombing has been a successful military tactic as part of the policy of threat-witness the use of South Vietnamese ground troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail after weeks of sustained pounding by American...