The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

The minister, describing the attacks which led up to the appeal, said that 60,000 Communist North Vietnamese were fighting royal army troops on one front -- near Thakhek, in southern-central Laos.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U. S. destroyers and.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U. S. begins to evacuate U. S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover.

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5, 000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2, 500 others northwest of Kontum.

* 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

However Peter Rodman claimed, " Prince Sihanouk complained bitterly to us about these North Vietnamese bases in his country and invited us to attack them ".

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

In 1941, Ultra exerted a powerful effect on the North African desert campaign, against the German army, under General Erwin Rommel.

The company partnered up with Drew because " she emulates the iconic image of CoverGirl with her fresh, natural beauty and energetic yet authentic spirit " said Esi Eggleston Bracey, Vice President and General Manager of CoverGirl Cosmetics North America.

* 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.

* 1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.

The college was allowed to falter however after Ramsay left Halifax shortly after its establishment to serve as the Governor General of British North America.

General aviation is particularly popular in North America, with over 6, 300 airports available for public use by pilots of general aviation aircraft ( around 5, 200 airports in the U. S., and over 1, 000 in Canada ).

In the North American Lutheran tradition, General Synod refers to a church body which existed from 1820-1918.

See Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America.

Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

The country was admitted to the United Nations in 1955 and is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade / World Trade Organization ( GATT / WTO ), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), and the Council of Europe.

Many treaties ( such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade before the establishment of the World Trade Organization ) do not establish an organization and instead rely purely on the parties for their administration becoming legally recognized as an ad hoc commission.

On September 17, Walker resigned as Secretary of War ; Benjamin left the Attorney General position replace Walker, and Thomas Bragg of North Carolina ( brother of General Braxton Bragg ) took Benjamin ’ s place as Attorney General.

In late 1863, Watts resigned as Attorney General to take office as the Governor of Alabama, and George Davis of North Carolina took his place.

During this period he was active in the training of the Vietnamese National Army ( VNA ), organizing the Caodaist militias under Trình Minh Thế in an attempt to bolster the VNA, a propaganda campaign encouraging Vietnam's Catholics to move to the south as part of Operation Passage to Freedom, and spreading claims that North Vietnamese agents were making attacks in South Vietnam.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

Mrs. Peck, later joined by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs. Lee Patterson, took Harvey to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary Club Tuesday.

* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

He began a program of self-education, later becoming a schoolteacher in Gloucester, North Bedford, Fairhaven and Newburyport.

It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.

Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa.

The British Army was heavily involved in the Napoleonic Wars in which the army served in multiple campaigns across Europe ( including continuous deployment in the Peninsular War ), the Caribbean, North Africa and later in North America.

He later appeared as a lonely teenager, Sterling North, in the 1969 Disney film, Rascal, and as Teft in the 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children.

The Carboniferous is often treated in North America as two geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian.

In eastern North America, marine beds are more common in the older part of the period than the later part and are almost entirely absent by the late Carboniferous.

Australia-New Guinea, having split from Gondwana during the early Cretaceous, drifted north and, eventually, collided with South-east Asia ; Antarctica moved into its current position over the South Pole ; the Atlantic Ocean widened and, later in the era, South America became attached to North America.

However, according to Justinus, 38. 3. 6, more than a decade later, at some time in 90-88 BCE, Mithridates the Great sent ambassadors to the Cimbri to request military aid ; judging from the context they must have been living in North Eastern Europe at the time.

According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the military leader of Panama later convicted on drug charges, whom he personally met.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

The North West Company's Fort Nez Percés was established near the Snake River junction several years later.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

Collingwood succumbed first as the Dons powered their way to an 82 point first semi final victory, and a fortnight later it was the turn of the North Melbourne Football Club as Essendon won the preliminary final a good deal more comfortably than the ultimate margin of 17 points suggested.

A year later Essendon were if anything even more dominant, defeating the North Melbourne Football Club in both the second semi final and the grand final to secure consecutive VFL premierships for the third time.

Two seasons later Coleman's career was tragically ended after he dislocated a knee during the Round 8 clash with the North Melbourne Football Club at Essendon.

The philosophy of Epictetus is well known in the American military through the writings and example of James Stockdale, an American fighter pilot who was shot down over North Vietnam, became a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, and later a vice presidential candidate.

In the snap elections in North Rhine-Westphalia a week later, the FDP not only crossed the threshold, but also increased its share of the votes to 2 percentage points higher than the previous state election.

Thus, for example, in the ( still used ) local North American subdivision paleontologist finding fragments of the trilobite Olenellus would identify the beds as being from the Waucoban Stage whereas fragments of a later trilobite such as Elrathia would identify the stage as Albertan.