Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised at Key Biscayne that there would be no commitment of U.S. ground troops to that country, but airpower is something else. A major reason that the U.S. is in Laos is to carry out bombing raids on North Vietnamese troops and supplies heading south on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...JUNE, '68. You asked how close Muong Soui is to Viet Nam-not close at all, but it is within sight of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. There is a war going on in Laos, and it is difficult to tell who is fighting...
...sanction of authorities on the scene, seemed to go much farther than the Prince's delicate balancing act permitted. With an estimated 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Sihanouk's country, many of them protecting the southern terminus of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Hanoi is certain to be alarmed by any threat to its Cambodian sanctuary...
...SUPPORT: Though B-52s have been bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail in eastern Laos for four years, there has been only one B-52 raid over the Plain of Jars, intended primarily to warn the Communists against carrying their latest offensive...
Less Than Deft. The chief effect of the Chau fiasco was to show that Thieu is less than deft in handling opposition. In recent years, he has turned relatively ineffectual opponents like Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential election, and Thich Thien Minh, a leading Buddhist, into near martyrs by arresting and imprisoning them. Now, as a U.S. official in Saigon notes, "he has changed Chau overnight from a political nonentity into an international figure." When Chau gets a new trial to appeal his conviction, probably this week, he can be expected to make the most...