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...efforts in Vietnam: "Hunting only supplements the diets of local villagers, and it imposes little hardship to ask them to put it aside if that is necessary to protect unique natural treasures." Moreover, some influential Vietnamese have become alarmed at the stripping of the nation's forests. General Vo Nguyen Giap, the legendary architect of North Vietnamese military strategy during the wars against France and the U.S., has reportedly remarked to visitors that Vietnam did not fight for decades to gain control of its resources only to squander them once it was independent. Indeed, a people with the will...
After a disappointing weekend which saw the team lose three of four games to division-rival Yale, the Crimson (4-10 Ivy, 8-14 Overall) will travel down the river to that glorified vo-tech school to play the traditional-ly-cream puffy Beavers...
...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...