Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1950s, American funds flooded into Indo-China, but mostly to support the French in their ill-fated effort to defeat the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary army. Laos remained on the periphery until the Geneva cease-fire was signed in 1954. From that point, the U.S. presence in Laos grew, spurred by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' determination to prevent Southeast Asia from falling under Communist domination...
...accord was completely ignored. As the war in Viet Nam intensified, increasing numbers of North Vietnamese poured into Laos to defend the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Chinese road builders appeared all over the north. U.S. advisers flocked to Vientiane, and American planes filled the skies-bombers to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail and transports to ferry government troops around...
...Berets who have completed their Army service and signed up as "spooks." American casualties in Laos are equally difficult to assess. The Pentagon will say only that since 1961, the U.S. has lost 193 air crewmen-Army, Air Force and Navy-over Laos, chiefly while bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It is not known whether the missing men have been captured or killed...
eliminate the subtlety of our argument. We must realize that slogans like "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, the NLF is going to win" are often barriers to communication...
...Richard Nixon knows how rotten the war is and probably wants it over as fervently as SMC. All this hassle, dissension, and international embarrassment is certainly too high a price to pay for the rubber and oil profits that rebounded to U. S. companies in the pre-Viet Minh days. But the victory of an indigenous, non-white guerrilla army over the United States military machine would establish a precedent that could be disastrous for American corporations around the world. Richard Nixon's meticulous understanding of the power dynamics of American politics inclines him to please the gentlemen interested...