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Sept. 3, 1969. Ho Chi Minh dies...
...think the Americans greatly underestimate the character of the Vietnamese people. We have always shown great determination when faced with a foreign invader. -Ho Chi Minh to Bernard Fall, Hanoi...
...lights went out in Viet Nam on a quiet evening in December 1946. Ho Chi Minh, bitterly realizing that his months of negotiation for independence from the French had failed, ordered that the electrical plants all over the country be mined; at 8 o'clock that night nearly all of them blew up simultaneously. That same evening, Viet Minh troops attacked French garrisons North and South. The war for independence was under way, and the precision of its inception was to be echoed for the next 26 years...
...least distaste, more often hatred for the French colonial rulers. All spent months and years in prison and exile for their beliefs. Ho himself, when he returned to Viet Nam in February 1941, had been away from his native land for 30 years, and the name Ho Chi Minh was only the last in a bewildering list of pseudonyms. Born Nguyen That Thanh (which means He Who Will Be Victorious), he became Nguyen Ai Quoc (He Who Loves His Country) during his poverty-ridden years in Paris. Later, during his travels between China and Moscow, where he studied...
Equally well organized and considerably more fiery is General Giap, who joined Ho in China in 1940. A year later he was ordered to establish the Viet Minh army. From a raggle-taggle beginning came the forces that overwhelmed the French at Dien Bien Phu and fought American troops to a standstill. Giap's classic work on guerrilla warfare (People's War, People's Army) is essentially a Vietnamese variation on the military doctrines of Mao Tse-tung, stressing, as does Mao, the vital importance of broad popular support. Asked in 1964 about the situation in South...