Word: pham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mandarin. The most likely successor to Ho as President is Premier Pham Van Dong, 59, who already presides over much of the government's day-to-day business and is by far the most visible man in the Hanoi hierarchy. The son of a mandarin who was the private secretary to Emperor Duy Tan, Dong became a nationalist during his student days, and in 1925 went to Canton and joined Ho, who was already training Communist cadres for revolution in Viet Nam. They have been together ever since. Dong headed Ho's delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference...
...Liberation Press Agency" announced the formation of a "South Viet Nam People's Committee for Solidarity with the American People." Its aim: to cheer on the dissenters and encourage desertion among American and South Vietnamese troops. Said a message to the Mob from North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong: "The Vietnamese people thank their friends in America and wish them great success in their mounting movement...
...signers thought that Pham VanDong's interview with Harrison Salisbury indicated a new flexibility in the willingness of Hanoi to negotiate...
...Patron. The first signal came during New York Timesman Harrison Salisbury's four-hour interview with North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong, whom some observers regard as le patron-the real boss-of the war effort. According to Salisbury, Pham emphasized that his oft-reiterated "four points"* for settlement of the war were not meant as prior "conditions" for peace talks but as a "basis of settlement." Since Hanoi had hitherto insisted that the U.S. had to accept these terms before talks could begin, the apparent shift in emphasis stirred a flurry of speculation. Was Pham...
...points, announced by Pham on April 8, 1965: 1) recognition of Viet Nam's independence, sovereignty and unity, and withdrawal of U.S. forces from the South; 2) no military alliances with foreign countries for either North or South; 3) settlement of South Viet Nam's affairs "in accordance with the program" of the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political arm; and 4) achievement of reunification by the Vietnamese people without foreign interference...