Word: minh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trinh Minh-ha, a Vietnamese-American filmmaker and scholar, will teach courses in the Visual and Environmental Studies and Women's Studies departments...
...Caterpillar are said to be lobbying for an end to the U.S. economic embargo. Coca-Cola and Kodak are already well known there, thanks to black-market sales. Last month the Backer Spielvogel Bates advertising agency, one of the world's largest, hosted a marketing conference in Ho Chi Minh City. Said Carl Spielvogel, chairman of the firm: "We believe there is an enormous potential there, and in Indochina generally. We intend to be pioneers in this market...
...Minh and his followers did not see themselves that way. Yes, they believed in communism, which provided them with a combination of mentality and methods well suited to prevailing in war (but not in peace): discipline and self-sacrifice, brutally enforced. They were glad to have support from Moscow and Beijing, but they were not doing Soviet or Chinese bidding. They were determined to keep Vietnam from ever again being under the control of a foreign power. They saw the Americans as successors to French and Chinese imperialists. That image of the G.I. served Ho better than America's image...
...North Vietnam. It has virtually no friends and certainly no superpower godfather. The U.S. and the international community, notably including Russia, are united against what Serbia is doing. Slobodan Milosevic's regime can be isolated politically and, if necessary, defeated militarily in a way that Ho Chi Minh's could...
...Fidel Castro. The Bearded One occasioned both the greatest debacle of J.F.K.'s term, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, and the most dangerous incident of the cold war, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Lyndon Johnson's presidency became a battle of wills between Johnson and Ho Chi Minh. Johnson lost. Jimmy Carter found himself squared off against the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Desert One, site of the failed attempt to rescue the U.S. hostages in 1980, was Carter's Bay of Pigs -- and, as it turned out, his Waterloo...