The fact that China ( which is obsessed by Formosa -- to Khrushchev a very small matter ) should be supported by North Korea and North Vietnam is highly indicative.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

As a result, the West is in a poor bargaining position at the current Geneva negotiations on Laos, and South Vietnam and other nations in Southeast Asia are under increased pressure.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

In Vietnam, it is called rau dền and is used to make soup.

Skyjacked ( film ) is a 1972 film about a crazed Vietnam war veteran hijacking a Boeing 747 and demanding to be taken to Russia by the captain, Charlton Heston.

Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

* Cox, Paul ; " The Legacy of Agent Orange is a Continuing Focus of VVAW ", The Veteran, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Volume 38, No. 2, Fall 2008.

* 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.

Angry, impatient and short-tempered, Buzzcut is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character.

Notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh ( which is the capital city ), the rural Battambang area, the areas of Northeast Thailand adjacent to Cambodia such as Surin province, the Cardamom Mountains, and in southern Vietnam.

Standard Cambodian Khmer is mutually intelligible with the others but a Khmer Krom speaker from Vietnam, for instance, may have great difficulty communicating with a Khmer native to Sisaket Province in Thailand.

Khmer Krom or Southern Khmer is spoken by the indigenous Khmer population of the Mekong Delta, formerly controlled by the Khmer Empire but part of Vietnam since 1698.

Cambodia is a country in Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, between Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos.

Its 2, 572 km border is split among Vietnam ( 1, 228 km ), Thailand ( 803 km ) and Laos ( 541 km ), as well as 443 km of coastline.

Roughly square in shape, the country is bounded on the north by Thailand and by Laos, on the east and southeast by Vietnam, and on the west by the Gulf of Thailand and by Thailand.

To the southeast of this great basin is the Mekong Delta, which extends through Vietnam to the South China Sea.

A third line is planned to connect Phnom Penh with Vietnam, the last missing link of the planned rail corridor between Singapore and the city of Kunming, China.

Cambodia is involved in a dispute regarding offshore islands and sections of the boundary with Vietnam.

In addition, the maritime boundary Cambodia has with Vietnam is undefined.

Coming Home converts the huge problem of the returning injured Vietnam War soldier into the chance that the injured soldier will fall in love, and when he does, the strong implication is that the larger problem is also solved.

Vegetarian cuisine is known as zhāicài ("( Buddhist ) vegetarian food ") in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan ; đồ chay in Vietnam ; in Japan ; sachal eumsik (" temple food ") in Korea and by other names in many countries.

As Senator, Gravel became nationally known for his forceful but unsuccessful attempts to end the draft during the Vietnam War and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971 at risk to himself.

The ensuing court case was turned by Dellinger and his co-defendants into a nationally-publicized platform for putting the Vietnam War on trial.

But the Vietnam War was putting significant inflationary pressure on construction wages.

Gromyko noted that Soviet-US dialogue which had been suspended in 1963 should be reactivated, despite the Vietnam War putting a great deal strain on the two countries ' relations.

During their afternoon meeting, Kosygin told Johnson that he was recently in contact with Phạm Văn Đồng, the Prime Minister of North Vietnam, and that they had discussed the possibilities on putting an end to the war.

Khánh claimed the instability was due to troublemaking by members and supporters of the Catholic-aligned Đại Việt ( the Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam ), which he accused of putting partisan plotting ahead of the national interest.

In his 1974 book Deutschland und der kalte Krieg ( Germany and the Cold War ), Nolte wrote there was " a worldwide reproach that the United States was after all putting into practice in Vietnam, nothing less than its basically crueler version of Auschwitz ".

As the French regime was under considerable strain, France was unable to follow through with the application of the Treaty, but Mgr Pigneau de Behaine persisted in his efforts and with the support of French individuals and traders mounted a force of French soldiers and officers that would contribute to the modernization of the armies of Nguyễn Ánh, contributing to his victory and his reconquest of all of Vietnam by 1802.

Overall, Wilson is seen to have managed a number of difficult political issues with considerable tactical skill, including such potentially divisive issues for his party as the role of public ownership, British membership of the European Community, and the Vietnam War, in which he officially resisted US pressure to involve Britain and send British troops.

The United States in a position of some leverage owing to the considerable US aid flowing into South Vietnam, gave President Diem an ultimatum in August 1963 to distance himself from both his brother and Madame Nhu.

Bank spent considerable time traveling through Vietnam with Ho and was impressed with Ho's manifest popularity among the Vietnamese population.

Although technically no longer the reigning sovereign, there are instances like the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China or several emperors of the Trần Dynasty in Vietnam, where the emperor continued to exert considerable if not more power than the reigning emperor.

A majority of Buddhists in the country are Austrian nationals ( some of them naturalized after immigration from Asia, predominantly from the People's Republic of China and Vietnam ), while a considerable number of them are foreign nationals.

Later, Đắk Lắk was part of South Vietnam, and saw considerable action in the Vietnam War.

In the 1960s, the ACLU continued its decades-long effort to enforce separation of church and state, and it also defended several anti-war activists during the Vietnam War who burnt draft cards or wore armbands.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to " Vietnamize " the war effort.

Such a scenario occurred with the US in Vietnam, with the American effort creating dependence in South Vietnam, and war weariness and protests back home.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the " silent majority " to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.

In 1979, Public Law 96-22 established the first Vet Centers, after a decade of effort by combat vets and others who realized the Vietnam veterans in America and elsewhere ( including Australia ) were facing specific kinds of readjustment problems.

** Vietnam War: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the " silent majority " to join him in solidarity with the Vietnam War effort, and to support his policies.

* November 2 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders (" the Wise Men ") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort.

Although North Vietnam blocked the flights, the effort was instrumental in bringing the plight of those POWs to the world's attention and their captors soon began treating them better.

In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam.

The cornerstone of Diệm's counterinsurgency effort was the Strategic Hamlet Program, which called for the consolidation of 14, 000 villages of South Vietnam into 11, 000 secure hamlets, each with its own houses, schools, wells, and watchtowers.

Johnson increasingly focused on the American military effort in Vietnam.

Returning from Vietnam in 1965, he made a speaking tour of the U. S. to advocate an intensified war effort.

The Hanoi government ( unlike the US government, which had to give permission at the highest levels for the conduct of these missions ) probably assumed that they were all a coordinated effort to escalate military actions against North Vietnam.

This is why, he claims, the US put so much effort into suppressing so-called " people's movements " in Chile, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Laos, Grenada, El Salvador, Guatemala, etc.

Many regarded the new secretary as more of a hawk on Vietnam than McNamara, and thought his selection might presage an escalation of the U. S. military effort there.

One of Laird's most active initiatives was his persistent effort to secure the release of the American captives held by the enemy in Vietnam.

While small in terms of total men deployed throughout the Vietnam theater, sapper attacks had a significant impact for the NLF / PAVN effort.

Reflecting the spirit of political compromise, Vietnam phased out its reeducation effort.

John Schlight, in his A War Too Long, said of the PAVN's logistical apparatus :" This sustained effort, requiring the full-time activities of tens of thousands of soldiers, who might otherwise have been fighting in South Vietnam, seems proof positive that the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail had disrupted the North Vietnamese war effort.

" The same historians would not consider the immense logistical effort fielded by the U. S. to sustain its military in Southeast Asia as a waste of manpower and resources, even if only one American soldier in four assigned to South Vietnam served in the combat arms.