Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minh, 59, has long been one of South Viet Nam's most durable and well-liked leaders. A southerner, born in My Tho, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, and a Buddhist, he was educated in a French lycee and served in the French colonial army. He was once a student of President Tran Van Huong, whom he generally addresses by the respectful term "Master." Imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II, Minh had half of his teeth yanked out by torturers. He now wears a bridge...
...America now--he did Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, In the Hest of the Night, American Graffiti, and Medium Cool. Here he's filming North Vietnam and the liberated sections of South Vietnam--shots of Hanol, and the ruined Bach Mai Hospital, PRG soldiers, interviews with Le Duc Tho and others. All of this was done on very low budget, narrated by Fonda and Hayden. Whodunit Festival. At the Orson Welles until the end of March is a batch of mystery movies, some good, some not so good, ranging from The Third Man and Touch of Evil to weaker...
...Asia will continue to be ravaged by fighting, even though more than a year has passed since U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Due Tho won a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating what was supposed to have been a cease-fire for Indochina.* In 1974, fighting in South Viet Nam took 75,000 lives on both sides, making it one of the bloodiest years in the war's long history; 1975 will probably be worse. Although a general offensive is not expected, Saigon fears that because the Communist forces are stronger than...
...Kissinger accepted the award, but Le Due Tho refused it, declaring that "peace has not yet really been established...
...best of times, peace is hard to come by and even harder to person alize and attribute to any individual. The Nobel Prize committee learned that the hard way last year when it sought to honor Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Chief Negotiator Le Due Tho with its Peace Prize for negotiating the U.S. withdrawal from America's longest war. Hawks who blamed North Viet Nam for the hostilities were outraged at the choice of Tho; doves who thought the war could have been ended much sooner were angry at the choice of Kis singer; Richard Nixon was hurt...