Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late as the end of November, North Vietnam retained some hope for negotiation. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh wrote in Hoc Tap that "diplomacy is a front of strategic importance as it has its own forces and potentialities and does not merely reflect the successes of armed and political struggle at home but also plays a positive role...
...nothing we ever saw." Then came the ground attack. Some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops, with Russian-built tanks and artillery, swept down through Quang Tri province, sending 50,000 refugees fleeing south and U.S. advisers scurrying to their helicopters. As his stunned military forces struggled to regroup, President Nguyen Van Thieu appeared on TV to deliver a grim ten-minute speech. "This is the final battle to decide the survival of the people," he said...
Like the Rhine. For their part, the North Vietnamese were obviously poised for an unprecedented effort. In the words of a White House official, they had "a lot of chips in the pot." In the past, the North Vietnamese commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, had always kept at least half of his 480,000-man army within North Viet Nam. Now 14 of his 15 divisions (or about 350,000 men) were deployed all across Indochina's battlefields; elements of ten divisions-including many units that had been operating in-country or on the borders for months or years...
What were the North Vietnamese really up to? There were few clues from the Communists; Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the chief Viet Cong negotiator in Paris, spoke conventionally of overthrowing "the repressive regime of Saigon" and establishing a goverment of "national concord" All that intelligence officers know for sure is that Hanoi has planned a five-phase offensive...
Enemy tanks captured the northern section of the town Thursday, but An Loc's defenders reported they drove the Vietcong from all but two blocks of the provincial capital last night. President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the remaining 12,000 man government force to hold the town at all costs...