Word: minh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader Deng Xiaoping. The joint declaration was made by Viet Nam, Kampuchea and Laos, but it came largely at the instigation of the Soviets. "The military doesn't like it. They don't believe ((Premier)) Hun Sen's forces are ready," said a senior Vietnamese official in Ho Chi Minh City. "Basically, it's a political decision to withdraw. There's a lot of pressure to get out, especially from the Soviets." Moscow could ill afford to keep bankrolling the occupation of Kampuchea. Nor did that venture square with Gorbachev's promises to ease regional tensions and stop exporting revolution...
...seeing Ho Chi Minh as a pawn of the Chinese communists, American politicians failed to realize that the rebels represented the nationalist desires of the Vietnamese people...
...Minh had no way of being seen as who he was, a communist and a nationalist," Sheehan said...
...failed to heed the smoke rising from the ghettoes. In France, anger was directed first at a sclerotic university system, then at the Fifth Republic, which condoned it, then at the Republic's architect, De Gaulle. Orthodox Communist parties were spurned in favor of Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh. In Warsaw and Prague, students marched against Stalinism...
THOSE SOUTHERN NIGHTS. Vietnamese officials may not admit it, but Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) has become the country's unofficial winter capital. Virtually the entire 14-man Politburo, including 75-year-old General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh, prefers the balmy climate of the former imperialist bastion to the damp cold of Hanoi, the capital, which is 700 miles to the north. But the old warriors are careful to maintain appearances: when they have to receive foreign ministers and issue government announcements, Politburo members return -- briefly -- to Hanoi...