Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in two decades. Vietnam today is free of that onslaught and rid of the fear of that barrage. The thousands of refugees spawned by 30 years of war--seeking escape from bombings, marches and retreats, free-fire zones and protective-reaction strikes; or ripped untimely from their homes by "strategic-hamlet" programs and "forced-draft urbanization's"--will start to go back to their homes now. The Montagnard tribesmen, alternately cajoled and maltreated by a Saigon administration uninterested in their problems or their culture, will begin to live with a government with at least some commitment to fighting...
...Vietnam's farmers, and its farmers-turned soldiers, will go back to growing rice and raising pigs, probably on lands no longer owned by large landlords and with the beginnings of co-operative labor. The celebrated Vietnamese orphans--from a country where there was hardly a word for "orphan" until massive American intervention strained Vietnamese families' traditional generosity beyond its capacity for resilience--will grow up peacefully. These children of the war, the "nieces and nephews" to whom Ho Chi Minh directed his last testament, will once again find a secure place in a secure social fabric. And because that...
...hope and believe that there will be no "bloodbath" in Vietnam. Our belief is strengthened by the indications available so far, such as the PRG's stated program, most Catholic clergy's choosing to remain in NLF-held areas as they did not in 1954, and the reports of newspaper people and refugees about NLF-held cities where life is said to have returned to normal. It seems likely that the PRG will retaliate only against high-ranking Saigon officials personally responsible for large-scale torture and for continuing the war. Most of these people have probably already found well...
...ROOTS OF the Vietnam war go back at least as far as the middle of the 19th century, when French soldiers who had spent 30 years eroding the power of Vietnam's symbol of national unity--the monarchy--took over the country altogether. Effectively undermining an already tenuously unified Vietnamese culture, and supporting a small elite of wealthy Vietnamese landlords at the expense of the peasantry. French actions began to inspire the nationalist resistance that would eventually expel both the French and their American successors...
...until the Second World War that the French colony really began to crumble, and the struggle for Vietnamese independence took on a more violent form. And almost from the time that Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam Independence League--the Viet Minh--liberated Vietnam from its collapsing Japanese occupiers, with a Declaration that began by quoting the American Declaration of Independence, the United States did what it could to hold back this struggle...