Word: vo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been well tested for years in the process of covering Communist China. Every facet of that kind of reporting was brought to bear for this week's cover story on the other side's dilemma and the shadowy figure who runs the North Vietnamese war machine, General Vo Nguyen Giap...
...slowed, stemmed and finally reversed by the massive input of U.S. arms and men. Today, with 275,000 Americans fighting in Viet Nam and 400,000 expected by year's end, the Communists are finding that the war of liberation plotted by North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap is disastrously out of date (see THE WORLD...
...General Vo Nguyen Giap...
...rehearsal for one of the Red Napoleon's coveted set-piece strikes. If so, as is happening with increasing regularity to Giap's best-laid plans, another timetable must be destroyed, and all the meticulous, delicate structure of insurgency tactics be reassembled. It is General Vo Nguyen Giap's own aphorism that he may only attack when success is certain. Even more than his rice and his bullets, that certitude is in scarce supply in the new war the men from the North must endure in South Viet...
...than it is annoying to U.S. commanders, who are spoiling for a fight they are confident they can win-and for an end to the suspense as to what the Reds will do next. The North Vietnamese eminence grise with the answer to that question is tiny, plump General Vo Nguyen Giap (pronounced Zhop), 55, Commander in Chief of the North Vietnamese army, Hanoi's Defense Minister and Deputy Premier, who shares with China's Mao Tse-tung a reputation as the world's foremost practitioner of the dark art of insurgency warfare...