Word: vo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VO NGUYEN GIAP...
...Dien Bien Phu to make a decisive stand aimed at checking the Communists. Instead, the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indochina war led to the slaughter of 1,500 Frenchmen and, at home, to the loss of political will to continue the campaign. To General Vo Nguyen Giap, the commander of the attacking forces, who is now 71, the Viet Minh victory was "the toll of a bell heralding the decline of colonialism." The battle at Dien Bien Phu led to the partition of Viet Nam and the establishment of the Communist regime in the north...
...Czechoslovakia, the official newspaper Rudé Právo has also published letters expressing anxiety over the missile deployments, and local Communist Party groups have staged meetings to quell some of the fears. Church groups, however, have remained securely muzzled, as have the country's few remaining political dissidents. Last month a document from Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 underground dissident group emerged in the West, noting that about 20 members of the tiny organization had been picked up by police and warned to watch their words on the missile issue. Any expressions of opinion about the impending Soviet...
...life awaits us?" The words were not new, nor was the fear that prompted them: the stationing of new nuclear missiles in Europe. The forum, however, was different. The letters were printed not in West European newspapers, but in Czechoslovakia's official Communist daily, Rudé Právo. Despite their ambiguous phrasing, they seemed to convey thinly masked criticism of recently announced Soviet plans to station new tactical nuclear weapons in Czechoslovakia and East Germany if NATO begins to install new missiles in Western Europe. Deployment of the U.S.-made weapons is scheduled to start next month...
...second installment. "The First Vietnam War," the French fight the Vietminh for eight years only to be soundly defeated at Dien Bien Phu, as a French general pointedly recalls a talk with General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese Defense Minister and instigator of Dien Bien Phu and the Tet Offensive...