Word: minh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While much can be taken on Nixon's authority as a former President, he offers no footnotes and only cursory citations of sources. One wonders, for instance, just how he can be certain that President Ngo Dinh Diem would have outpolled Ho Chi Minh or any other opponent in a hypothetical free election in South Viet Nam. His book is less a history than an impassioned pleading against both neo-isolationists who believe the U.S. has no stake beyond self-defense and confrontational rightists who see a Soviet hand guiding every local upheaval in the Third World. To Nixon, Viet...
...political instability from which South Viet Nam never recovered. He faults Lyndon Johnson for halting bombing, rather than intensifying it, to encourage diplomacy; for fighting a limited war, seeking "not to win, but only not to lose"; and, above all, for failing to blockade the Ho Chi Minh Trail and other supply routes before the invaders became entrenched. By the time Nixon took office in 1969, he says, the only workable option was Vietnamization: turning the fighting over to the South Vietnamese while providing arms, aid, military training and political tutelage to safeguard their future...
...better example than Viet Nam. Guerrillas started the war; diplomats and politicians failed to end it; generals won it. Alas for the U.S., they were Hanoi's generals. When the last Americans left Saigon, they were fleeing not Victor Charlie in his black pajamas and Ho Chi Minh sandals but the uniformed and armored legions of North Viet Nam's army, then fifth largest in the world (now fourth, having supplanted India's army...
...Dean Brelis, currently TIME's New Delhi bureau chief, memories of Viet Nam go back to 1950-51, when it was an embattled French colony. Ho Chi Minh, leader of Viet Nam's fight for independence, once told Brelis, "We will defeat the French, and if you make the mistake of staying here, we will defeat you." Recalls Brelis: "It was a warning I never forgot...
...collapsing country. Dang Nguyen, bureau manager from 1964 to 1975 and now the chief of Time Inc.'s wire room in New York City, flew out with his wife and six children on a U.S. Air Force plane a week before Saigon's fall. So did Staff Photographer Le-Minh Thai, now employed in the Los Angeles bureau. Bookkeeper Nga Thi Tran was able to get seats aboard a military helicopter three days later; she now works on TIME's news desk in New York. San Francisco Wire Room Operator Luong Long left by plane just two days before...