Word: minh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clark had served 18 months in jail for the Days of Rage. Living in Manhattan for the past ten years, she has recently been associated with the all-female May 19 Coalition, a group that takes its name from the common birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh and fancies itself as a support team for clandestine black liberation terrrorist organizations. The fourth suspect, Samuel Brown, 41, who was injured in the crash, is an ex-convict with a 23-year police record...
Enter the CIA, which decided to organize its own mission on the basis of reconnaissance photographs that suggested the presence of a P.O.W. camp in Laos, near the former Ho Chi Minh Trail...
First, as some participants observed, it was disappointing to see so few Americans in the audience. Where are the crowds which not so long ago chanted "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh"? The "hostile crowd of about 100" which you reported was composed almost exclusively of Vietnamese. Many of them are boat people and recently arrived, and their hostility was directed exclusively at Ngo Vinh Long for his attempt to whitewash a regime which they know from painful experience to be corrupt, incompetent, and repressive...
Despite "the economic advancements in northern Vietnam" cited by Ngo Vinh Long, there were food riots last fall in Nghe Tinh (the cradle of Vietnamese Communism and the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh) and in Haiphong, and open disaffection in Hanoi. All these are areas that have been under Communist rule since 1945. Most of the Vietnamese who have reached Hong Kong this year (572 to date) come from the North; many were born and raised under Communism. The economy of Vietnam is supported to the tune of $100 million annually from the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who have...
Indochina's current Communist regimes seek their own middle way to deal with their Buddhist populations. In South Viet Nam, people are free to worship, but those who meditate with the 15 monks (out of 30) who remain at the Vinh Nghiem pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City are reminded by the bust of Uncle Ho and numerous red banners that the religion is tolerated only as an appendage of the state. In Laos, over the past five years, one-fourth of the peasant population of 3 million have swum or rafted across the Mekong River to Thailand...