Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...southern Viet Nam, the U Minh Forest, the Central Highlands and the area bordering Cambodia's Parrot's Beak, are proving as inhospitable to Hanoi's troops as they were to America's. Tattered groups of militant Hoa Hao Buddhists, disgruntled peasants and bitter former soldiers of the fallen Thieu regime in Saigon have established strongholds in these areas. Around Dalat, for instance, up to 2,000 veterans sporadically battle the forces of the new rulers. The fighting has been serious enough for circumspect Hanoi newspapers to admit that "veterans do not hesitate to open fire...
...Communists now call it Ho Chi Minh City, but it still looks much like the old Saigon-at least at first glance. A stroll along busy Tu Do Street-renamed Dong Khoi, the Street of the Simultaneous Uprising-remains one of the most fascinating city walks in the world, a gauntlet of boutiques, cafés and attractive women in the traditional ao dai-a long, slit-skirted dress. In sharp contrast with Hanoi, where I found nearly everything in short supply, Saigon's peddlers hawk an abundance of goods, from government-sponsored lottery tickets to ceramic elephants...
...Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed]." Our guides unabashedly confessed to listening to the Voice of America. They prefer country-and-western music and Hollywood show tunes to The Ballad of Norman Morrison, a Vietnamese song commemorating the war protester who burned himself to death on the steps...
With ringing, self-congratulatory toasts, Ho Chi Minh's successor, Secretary-General Le Duan, 68, last week ended the first Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party since 1960-and the first held in a unified Viet Nam. The six-day meeting in some respects resembled an overblown victory banquet. The 1,008 cadres and 24 fraternal foreign delegations-led by the Soviet Central Committee's Mikhail Suslov-endured no fewer than 55 speeches, including an eight-hour stem-winder by Le Duan. The theme of the Congress-Thong Nhat (national reunification)-was symbolized by the arrival of delegates...
...national unity has proved far more difficult to achieve than it first seemed 20 months ago when the victorious Communist T-54s rumbled down the streets of Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City). Although there is little armed resistance in the South, the two Viet Nams remain divided by regional differences and decades of life under radically opposed political systems...