Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carrier Hancock, which came from its home base in Alameda, Calif. joined the carrier Oriskany in the Tonkin Gulf to launch a strike over a 2000-mile stretch of the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Paris peace talks met for the 91st time and reported no progress. Four men completed a hazardous voyage on a raft from Ecuador to Australia to prove that American Indians could have sailed across the Pacific. American B-52 bombers once again flew missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail to stem a North Vietnamese buildup in the Demilitarized Zone. Ralph Nader was locked in another safety battle with General Motors. The WAVES got a new chief, the eighth in their history, Commander Robin Quigley. The holiday season's first gift suggestion for the patriot who has everything...
...does not seem eager to do much business with them. Henry Ford was invited to build a truck plant in Russia, but he backed away from the proposal after Defense Secretary Melvin Laird publicly warned that Ford's trucks might ultimately end up rumbling down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Pisar thinks that that was a mistake. He asks: "What could have been a greater admission of the economic failure of Communism than to invite Henry Ford, the epitome of American capitalism and patriotism, to come to the heart of the Soviet Union to show the Russians...
...often said to reflect the theories of Mao, Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap. To the extent that he sought to establish a rural, peasant base for revolution, that is true. His Bolivian papers, however, betray a pervasive Stalinist influence. Che sneered at the late Sociologist C. Wright Mills (The Marxists) for his "stupid anti-Stalinism," describing him as "a clear example of North American leftist intellectuals." He dismissed New Left Ideologue Herbert Marcuse because his concepts "are of little relevance in the national liberation struggle and nation-building as it had to be carried out under Stalin...
...that the white man can put boo-coo money in his pocket," Pvt. Bruce Jessup of Washington, D.C., said in Pleiku. "He just lets you die so he can send his little war materials over here. To hell with this war. We should say, come on in. Ho Chi Minh, this is yours. You can probably do a whole lot better with drove a gas truck for the 815th Army Engineer Battalion...