Word: minh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evidence available to this Government," said Lyndon Johnson, "indicates only continuing hostility and aggressiveness in Hanoi, and an insistence on the abandonment of South Viet Nam to Communist takeover." In his latest and strongest rejection of Washington's peace bid, North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh last week sent a letter to other Communist capitals denouncing the U.S. effort as an "impudent threat" and demanding that the Hanoi-sponsored National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political facade, be recognized "as the sole genuine representative of the people of South Viet Nam." In so doing...
...Hazards. With no U.S. planes to harass them, 200 trucks daily-ten times the pre-pause average-moved war materiel southward. Routes 1A and 15 bustled with daylight traffic headed for Mu Gia pass, gateway to the Laos spur of the Ho Chi Minh trail. Men moved over the trail too-at least 2,500 during the pause, including 1,000 on Christmas Day alone. Some officials in Saigon unofficially numbered the infiltration at as many as 6,000, and they estimate that there are now at least nine North Vietnamese regiments, and possibly twelve, in the South...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Man of the Month," a profile of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh...
...South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed that a U.S. diplomat recently handed a North Vietnamese representative a direct communication, dealing with Washington's peace proposals, to Ho Chi Minh's government...
...long suspected that a branch of the Communist "underground railroad"-the Ho Chi Minh trail-cut through Cambodia. But proof was hard to obtain: so wild and enemy-infested is the Viet Nam side of the Cambodian border that no allied troops had ventured to the border since the French left...