Word: vo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEEK IN VIETNAM, and there are those who say the skies are full of portents. Certainly the streets are. In Hanoi the open-air markets are bustling with customers and abundant with beautiful vegetables. The boulevards are choked with Honda minibikes. In a speech to Asia watchers, Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet sets forth as first among his administration's goals a distinctly noncommunist priority: "to make our people rich...
ATOP A GRASSY HILL OVERLOOKING THE PLAIN AT Dien Bien Phu, where almost 4,000 French soldiers died and nearly 11,000 were taken prisoner 39 years ago, President Francois Mitterrand listened as General Maurice Schmitt pointed out the landmarks: the mountains from which General Vo Nguyen Giap's troops bombarded the fields below, the airstrip, the hilltop positions that fell one by one until General Christian de Castries and his exhausted men finally surrendered on May 7, 1954, ushering in the end of France's colonial rule in Indochina. "I felt the need to pay my respects," said Mitterrand...
...offensive was a gamble by the communist leadership in Hanoi to break the momentum of the U.S. war effort. "The American military was so huge we could not possibly destroy it, so we had to destroy America's will to fight," says legendary military strategist General Vo Nguyen Giap, who served as North Vietnam's Defense Minister in 1968. "And by that measure, the Tet offensive * succeeded." America's leaders had convinced their public that the war against communism was being won at a reasonable cost. Tet shattered that myth...
...handful of Social Security cards, a charred diary, flight suits worn by downed pilots, and a helmet said to have been left behind by Senator John McCain, a member of Kerry's subcommittee on MIA-POW affairs who was a prisoner in Vietnam for five years. Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet said his goal was to "resolve all aspects of the issue of missing Americans" so that full diplomatic relations could be restored. Kerry said he would tell President George Bush that the Vietnamese ^ had been "forthcoming." That may be the signal Bush is seeking to lift economic sanctions before...
...firm vibrato is not elitist, and she sings this collection of songs that have made their way into films with a passion and abandon that would make Madonna envious. Garrett's plaintive Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro, and her flirtatious plotting in Quando m'en vo, from La Boheme, are the answer for those looking for substance in their tunes...