Word: vo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient Vietnamese proverb, quoted by Deputy Foreign Minister Vo Dong Giang last week during a visit to Bangkok, had an odd ring. Viet Nam was courting its former enemies and criticizing its former comrades...
...front last week, Vietnamese troops strengthened their hold over the Cambodian salient known, because of its shape, as the Parrot's Beak. Rolling across the border into the beak with captured American armor, artillery, air support*-and tactics-General Vo Nguyen Giap's 60,000-man force easily shattered Khmer Rouge defenders. Although Hanoi acknowledged that Cambodian forces had launched a broad counterattack into seven Vietnamese provinces, General Giap's forces were believed to be still in control of key border sectors and were securing their military victory through the formation of a provisional government composed...
...this episode that finally prompted Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to go all out in retaliation. No less a military leader than Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero against the French at Dienbienphu and scourge of the Americans during the Viet Nam War, took charge of the campaign. Characteristically, Giap planned slowly; he devoted a full two months to studying the terrain and the situation...
Backing down, Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chňoupek lamely announced that Prague was of course observing the Helsinki agreement and would continue to do so. Radio, television and the press abruptly ended their denunciations of the chartists. Explaining the turnabout, the party newspaper Rudé Právo declared that the nation had been temporarily "distracted" by a mere handful of "reactionaries" but that the time had come again to go on to "further successes in the building of socialism...
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