Word: ho
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moved with the crowd through the Yard and down past the Busch-Reisinger. The crowd started to run and we ran. "Ho, Ho, Ho, Chi Minh" they chanted and we clapped with the chant. I looked at Flip grinning through his moustache under his felt hat. "This is my first opportunity to be a non-student outside agitator," he said. Win snipped pictures. Howard asked people for cigarette papers...
...slight. As a precondition, the Communists insist that American planes halt their bombing in Laos. U.S. officials have indicated that the bombing will not stop, even at Souvanna's request. As Secretary of State William Rogers noted last week: "If North Viet Nam continues to use the Ho Chi Minh Trail as a principal supply route to South Viet Nam, obviously we would not be in a position to stop...
...some time, Laos and Cambodia have served as massive conduits for the flow of men and supplies from North Viet Nam to the southern battlegrounds. There is, of course, the spidery Ho Chi Minh Trail, threading into South Viet Nam from more than half a dozen points in Laos and Cambodia. There is also the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville, through which, according to some estimates, the Communists get fully 80% of their supplies for the war in the lower half of South Viet Nam. Much of the matériel is brought in aboard Chinese and Soviet freighters and moved...
...week by releasing secret testimony by Secretary of State William Rogers. Rogers said that the Nixon Administration had "no present plans" to send G.I.s to Laos even if Communist troops threatened to overrun it. Nonetheless, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird indicated that the U.S. would probably continue to bomb the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Cambodia could be a plus -over the short run, at least-provided the situation does not degenerate into anarchy and prompt a panicky Hanoi to mount a full-scale invasion. (Sihanouk was useful in that he kept Cambodia stable. If the new regime swings violently antiCommunist, there...
Resistance groups flourished almost from the start. Ho Chi Minh, who was to wage the most protracted and successful struggle against the French, was forced to leave school in 1910 for anti-French opinions. The Japanese occupation of Indochina during World War II swept away the myth that the white man was indestructible. Before long, that dramatic discovery led to a place and turning point called Dienbienphu...