Word: minh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke currently circulating in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) recounts an apocryphal exchange of cables between Hanoi and Moscow. "Tighten your belts," wires Moscow in response to a Vietnamese plea for increased economic aid. Hanoi's reply: "Please send belts...
...Nolan Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently puts money into new firms. When Valentine came around to inspect the new computer, he found Jobs wearing cutoff jeans and sandals while sporting shoulder-length hair and a Ho Chi Minh beard. Valentine later asked McKenna: "Why did you send me this renegade from the human race...
...traditions of political leadership, no real boundaries and no mandate to govern from its people. We gave the Vietnamese the shadow of representative government but not the substance; as many Americans freely admitted, the national elections mandated by the 1955 Geneva conference would probably have propelled Ho Chi Minh into power--a likelihood that we and South Vietnam's aspiring bosses were unwilling to accept. So America chose to keep the country divided, and substitute military power for genuine political authority--for the latter was not ours to give...
Whom do they most admire in the world? "Beside our great chairman, Arafat," says Boutros, "there are Ho Chi Minh and Castro." For Jamila it is Lenin: "Because he made a new world for his people. He made them like themselves and work together." The question of the future is raised, and the three of them talk of Palestine's certain glory. Jamila offers something more: "I would put an end to the use of all nuclear weapons...
...19th Coalition. Formed about two years ago by Weather Undergrounders and named for the common birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, the group is composed of 34 white women and six white men who see themselves as foot soldiers in the battle for black liberation. Its members operate above ground, and in September some protested a U.S. tour by a South Africa rugby team by hurling acid at New York City policemen...