Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army has proved itself eminently capable of fighting conventional wars as well as guerrilla operations when copiously supplied from the outside. Viet Nam's formidable arsenal includes American-made equipment that was captured intact with the fall of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu: 800,000 M-16 rifles, 550 tanks, 130,000 tons of ammunition and 1,000 aircraft of varying types. Lately, Hanoi has acquired some highly effective Soviet-made weaponry, including 900 medium and light tanks. Its 300 combat aircraft, mostly MiGs, are of Soviet or Chinese manufacture...
...face of worldwide criticism, Viet Nam seemed neither upset nor contrite. Its Ambassador to China, Nguyen Trong Vinh, blandly observed that his country still had a number of "capitalists, landowners" and other undesirables who hated the new system. Said he: "These people want to go elsewhere...
Under the circumstances, it is not surprising that Hanoi is seeking some new international friends and potential benefactors. One notable target of opportunity is the U.S. Last month Minister of State Nguyen Co Thach told a visiting delegation from the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong that he would "fly to New York" the following day, if necessary, to reopen stalled talks with the U.S. on normalizing relations. He even hinted, preposterously, that Hanoi might permit the U.S. military to use its former bases in Viet Nam if relations improved. "There are two eventualities facing Viet Nam," he said...
...Nguyen Hoai Nhân, M.D. St.-Mars-d'Outille, France
...claim to have occupied Lao Cai, a rail junction on the Red River in northwest Hoang Lien Son province. There, according to a Peking dispatch, troops of the People's Liberation Army uncovered stores of Chinese-made weapons and ammunition supplied to the Vietnamese for General Vo Nguyen Giap's war against the U.S. The stores included "soap and towels marked PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA and bicycles made in Shanghai...