Word: minh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vietnamese nationalists were so implacable: in the first years of the 20th century, postcards of severed Vietnamese heads were mailed by French soldiers to their sweethearts; some 2 million Vietnamese died of starvation during and after World War II. The narrative recalls that North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh collaborated at the end of that war with U.S. intelligence agents and modeled Viet Nam's 1945 declaration of independence on America's. These facts could lead to a romantic string of what-ifs; indeed, some former U.S. diplomats contend on-camera that Ho might have become...
...friend Tran Minh Cong, 45, works for the Orange County housing authority. "This country has been very gracious to me," he says. "But remember, I was forced to leave my country. I am hoping to go back there. Home is home." For now, however, he calls himself Joe Tran...
...Minh was right when he said, "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom." That is the reason we boat people fled to America...
...emerges is of a sophisticated strategy that takes advantage of the region's terrain and circumstances, and, above all, of the weaknesses of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran forces. The guerrillas, says a Washington-based intelligence analyst, "are really good. They're flexible. There are no Ho Chi Minh trails this time...
...Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom," one of Ho's favorite slogans, is stenciled on hundreds of roadside monuments, while colorful posters exhorting one and all to remember the North Vietnamese army's heroic sacrifices adorn shopwindows. In Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, the airport is fringed by old bomb craters and littered with the hulks of U.S. transport planes. In Hanoi, the capital, the memories of war are cherished in details large and small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze...