Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their heroes apparently are Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong. To the young potheads, America and the Americans are always wrong, and the other guy is always right, especially if he is a Communist. If I could feel sorry for the younger generation, I would; for soon there will be no teachers, no doctors, no lawyers, no engineers, no merchants, no anything, except revolutionaries running in a thousand different directions, having mistaken license for liberty...
...Communist troops still estimated to be in Cambodia, moreover, are moving swiftly to establish new supply lines. Even now they are knitting together a river network that will supplement the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In southern Laos, North Vietnamese regulars two weeks ago overran Attopeu, a town on a Mekong River tributary called the Se Kong; last week they menaced Saravane, another strategically located town. Along the Mekong in northern Cambodia, Communist troops have captured Kratie and Chhlong; last week they attacked Stung Treng, a key town at the confluence of the Se Kong and the Mekong, and sent...
Another anniversary, perhaps more instructive in 1970 than V-E day, passed unmarked in the U.S. last week. On May 7, 1954, Viet Minh troops overran the 10,000-soldier garrison of French Brigadier General Christian de Castries at Dienbienphu...
...conflict. The new government of Cambodian Premier General Lon Nol, reeling under widespread Communist border attacks, issued a plea to the world for military aid. In South Viet Nam, the Communists intensified their rocket attacks as part of a spring campaign that may peak about May 19, Ho Chi Minh's birthday. For a moment, however, there was the flickering hope of a diplomatic breakthrough in the war: the Soviet Union, reversing a longstanding policy, raised the possibility of convening a new Geneva conference, presumably like the ones that twice before have drafted plans for neutralizing Southeast Asia...
...would have abided by the guidelines of the Geneva Convention for a referendum in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh would have won, and we'd have a Yugoslavia in Southeast Asia-which might be too conservative for you," he said...