Word: minh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a big business in Vietnam over the past decade, in part because many Vietnamese refugees believe their chances of being permitted to resettle in the U.S. would improve if they brought with them a set of American bones. In the past year Vietnamese authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have raided the homes of seven families and recovered 1,178 boxes and bags that contained more than 3,100 sets of human remains. But a joint investigation determined that all but 22 of the grisly artifacts were those of Vietnamese...
...evidence remains strong that bones are being warehoused in Vietnam. Moreover, the central government's efforts to collect remains held by its citizens have been halfhearted at best. A week after our trip to Suoi Pai, we traveled to Ho Chi Minh City and put out the word that we were interested in MIA bones. Leads flooded in. A Vietnamese military officer passed along photocopies of the personal effects of three servicemen that supposedly came from graves dug up by impoverished soldiers in Kontum province...
...Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, whom he accuses of being a "Pulitzer prizewinning apologist for Stalin." Another Pulitzer prizewinner on Irvine's hit list is CNN's Desert Storm superstar, Peter Arnett, who, according to Irvine, "may have done more than any other single reporter to help make Ho Chi Minh's morale-sapping strategy work." Arnett, of course, does not have a plaque at the Times building...
...bars of Saigon and Bangkok to the red- bannered propaganda parades and squalid re-education camps of the Hanoi regime. It embraces chaste Asian weddings and bawdy Yankee beauty contests, a crooning anthem to a glistening American automobile and an austere hymn to a mammoth statue of Ho Chi Minh...
...Iraqi people meant that after a war began, he could wait--sit in his impregnable underground German-engineered fortress and wait while the Americans trotted out images of the Vietnam quagmire and became increasingly disillusioned as the bodybags came home. Many said he could do just what Ho Chi Minh had done--wait for a win by default as the American people grew disgusted with the Gulf War. A ground war simply could not be the right answer...