Word: minh
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Ever since Ho Chi Minh's 1968 Tet Offensive helped force President Lyndon Johnson out of that year's presidential race, the more sophisticated among America's enemies have paid close attention to U.S. domestic politics. And right now, they may like what they see: a nation of unrivaled power unable to choose a leader...
...season also promises some nonfiction works that are actually not about the Beatles, including Margaret Salinger's account of her reclusive writer-father and Ronald Reagan's letters to his wife. On tap too: major new biographies of Robert F. Kennedy, Donald Trump, Joe DiMaggio and Ho Chi Minh...
...crackling with electricity this Tuesday in Saigon (officially Ho Chi Minh City, but the locals have reverted to the old name). Monsoon clouds are moving in from the west. People are hurrying along sidewalks, newspaper vendors are getting out plastic sheeting, cyclo drivers are making for shelter...
Kieu Viet Lien started at less than zero. She was born in prison in 1974. Her mother had been jailed as a Viet Cong agent. They were not released until April 1975, when North Vietnamese forces overran Saigon. Lien was schooled in the city, renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victors. When she was 18 she got lucky: her application for a visa to study fashion in Australia was accepted. After three years in Melbourne, she went to Canada in 1996 for two years and then spent a year in Paris. There she fell in love with French style...
...women's restrooms to the first and fourth floor, and install combination locks on the doors. 28 - The United States Embassy orders the final evacuation of all 900 Americans from South Vietnam after attacks on Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Air Base and after South Vietnam President Duong Van Minh demands that all Americans leave the country. This ends 30 years of American involvement in the Indochina...