Word: minn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hartford, Conn., Carol Karvazy, wife of a refugee from Hungary's 1956 uprising, organized the town to sponsor two Vietnamese brothers, their wives and eight children, who were warmly welcomed there last week. In Faribault, Minn., John and Margaret Kennedy had eleven new Vietnamese faces-two adults and nine children -around the kitchen table in their small, two-bedroom house. In Tulsa, Okla., a gas-station owner, E.A. Stehle, set off with his wife in their Cadillac Eldorado for Fort Chaffee, determined to do what he could to help a Vietnamese family. Before the day was out, they returned...
...Minh spoke in the chandeliered reception hall, deeply carpeted and hung with gold brocade, great rolls of thunder and flashes of lightning accompanied him. The Communists were not impressed. P.R.G. representatives promptly rejected Minn's proposal, charging that he had not met their conditions: 1) all U.S. military personnel must leave Viet Nam, and 2) the new Saigon government must have no holdovers from the old U.S.-supported regime. As Minh worked frantically to arrange a settlement, Saigon was gripped by the fear that the Communists would launch an all-out attack. "There is just...
...Firecrackers exploded everywhere, and bells rang joyously. Jubilant factory workers and office employees, teachers and pupils poured into the center of town. From a huge poster high on the façade of the Central Information Hall, overlooking the confluence of the city's main thoroughfares, Ho Chi Minn, clad in the green fatigues of the Viet Nam People's Army, smiled benignly on the joyful crowds. The big letters on the poster read: YOU ARE ALWAYS MARCHING WITH US, UNCLE...
...considered most likely to take charge of dismantling the Saigon regime was one of that regime's principal architects: General Duong Van ("Big") Minn. Nearly twelve years ago, Minh helped usher in the period of South Vietnamese history that is now rushing to a close. He and a group of fellow officers began it all by toppling the unpopular, autocratic President Ngo Dinh Diem. If Minh is now chosen to preside over the transfer of effective political power to the Communists, it will be largely for one reason: the past dozen years have left him relatively untainted by either...
...Viet Cong is the fighting arm of the P.R.G.). Apparently he is of peasant origin and has no formal education; in his younger years he worked as a coolie on the railroad in his native Quang Ngai province, which is in central Viet Nam. Recruited by Ho Chi Minn, Tra was a Communist Party agitator against the French colonial government in the 1930s and 1940s...