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	Vietnam War - MSN Encarta
		Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army.
		This government’s repressive policies led to rebellion in the South, and in 1960 the NLF was formed with the aim of overthrowing the government of South Vietnam and reunifying the country.
		When Vietnam was divided in 1954, many Viet Minh who had been born in the southern part of the country returned to their native villages to await the 1956 elections and the reunification of their nation.
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	Vietnam War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Elections scheduled for 1956 in South Vietnam for the reunification of Vietnam were canceled by President Ngo Dinh Diem.
		South Vietnam’s requests for aid were denied by the U.S. Congress, and after Thieu abandoned the northern half of the country to the advancing Communists, a panic ensued.
		Vietnam was formally reunified in July, 1976, and Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
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	Vietnam War - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Elections were to be held in July 1956 throughout the North and South under the supervision of the International Control Commission, comprised of representatives from Canada, Poland, and India.
		Following these elections, Vietnam was to be reunited under the government chosen by popular vote.
		He won the elections with 98.2 percent of the vote, but many historians believe these elections were rigged, since about 150,000 more people voted in Saigon than were registered.
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	Vietnam War
		In 1900, Vietnam became a colony of France with the French in control of all the levels of government.
		Elections were to be held in 1966 to unify Vietnam.
		In 1973, the US and north Vietnam signed the Paris peace accords which called for the withdrawal of all American troops, the exchange of all prisoners of war, and consultations between north and south Vietnam regarding general elections.
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	Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Vietnam War was in many ways a direct successor to the First Indochina War, (or French Indochina War) in which the French, with the financial and logistical support of the United States, fought to regain control of their former colony in Indochina.
		The unstated goal of Vietnamization was that the primary burden of combat would be returned to ARVN troops and thereby lessen domestic opposition to the war in the U.S. During this period, the United States conducted a gradual troop withdrawal from Vietnam.
		Vietnam released figures on April 3, 1995 that a total of one million Vietnamese combatants and four million civilians were killed in the war.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Vietnam-War.htm (8279 words)

	Politics of Vietnam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A new state constitution was approved in April 1992, reaffirming the central role of the Communist Party of Vietnam in politics and society, and outlining government reorganization and increased market reforms in the economy.
		Though Vietnam remains a one-party state, adherence to ideological orthodoxy has become less important than economic development as a national priority.
		The Prime Minister of Vietnam, presently Phan Van Khai, heads a cabinet currently composed of four deputy prime ministers and the heads of 31 ministries and commissions, all confirmed by the National Assembly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Vietnam (802 words)

	STATISTICS OF VIETNAMESE GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
		In South Vietnam there was the suppression of various sects and their independent armies (line 219), rebellions of minorities (lines 222 to 223), the pre-Vietnam War communist inspired guerrilla war directed by North Vietnam from 1954 through 1959 (lines 227 and 228), and the incursion into Cambodia (line 239).
		As the possibility of these elections receded and both Hanoi and Saigon took on all the domestic and international functions of permanent governments, South Vietnam was also diplomatically recognized by a number of countries and carried out formal diplomatic interaction.
		Vietnam's population for 1967, the mid-year of the period, was 36,820,000 (UN Demographic Yearbook 1971, p.
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	Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vietnam War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army.
		Vietnam was temporarily divided at the 17th parallel to allow for a cooling-off period and for warring factions among the Vietnamese to return to their native regions.
		Elections were to be held in 1956 throughout the north and south and to be supervised by an International Control Commission that had been appointed at Geneva and was made up of representatives from Canada, Poland, and India.
	www.usawebsites.org /presidents/wars/vietnam.htm (9118 words)

	The United States and Vietnam
		The settlement signed at Geneva was an agreement that Vietnam was to be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel.
		Kennedy saw hearts and minds as part of the struggle in Vietnam, and in the face of failures in Vietnam he described the battle in Vietnam as needing to be won by the Vietnamese themselves, not by Americans.
		In Vietnam, many who had fought on the side of the Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh continued to see their struggle and sacrifice as having given their nation freedom to chose its own destiny.
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	the Vietnam War
		Vietnam had been under Chinese control for much of its history, but by the late 19th century France had obtained control of the area and made Vietnam a colony.
		Elections were set up to form a government in the South, while the communist regime in the north set up its headquarters in Hanoi (North Vietnamese capital).
		With the Americans out of Vietnam, the way was open for the North Vietnamese to gain control of South Vietnam, and form a single communist state.
	www.angelfire.com /bc3/coldwar/vietnam.html (453 words)

	Ho Chi Minh — Infoplease.com
		The accord also provided for elections to be held in 1956, aimed at reuniting North and South Vietnam; however, South Vietnam, backed by the United States, refused to hold the elections.
		Vietnam: History, Geography, Government, and Culture - Information on Vietnam — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest cities, as well as a map and the national flag.
		Vietnam War - Vietnam War U.S., South Vietnam, and Allies versus North Vietnam and National Liberation Front...
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	vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Eventually the French lost the war and Vietnam was divided into two countries, communist North Vietnam under the government by Ho Chi Minh and democratic South Vietnam under the government of No Di Diem.
		Ike believed that if Vietnam were to fall to communism, all of South Asia would fall to communism, and eventually the whole world would fall as well.
		However, as South Vietnam began to lose the war against the Viet Cong who were being supported by the government of North Vietnam, the role of the advisors soon changed.
	www.homestead.com /themattshow/vietnam.html (1507 words)

	Country Profiles Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		Vietnam’s 53 ethnic minorities are primarily concentrated in mountainous areas in the north and central highlands.
		Vietnam was effectively divided into a communist-controlled North (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and a Western-backed South (the Republic of Vietnam).
		Vietnam was formally re-unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 and admitted into the UN in 1977.
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	Iraq Elections: No Silver Bullet
		The elections in South Vietnam did not result in increased commitment by Vietnamese to the government of Nguyen Van Thieu, and the election of Jose Napoleon Duarte as president of El Salvador in 1984 did not sap the willingness of the Salvadoran left to fight.
		To be sure, even an election that perpetuates rather than resolves a country 's violent divisions can begin to accustom a population to the practices of democratic choice.
		U.N. election experts fashioned the proportional representation rules for the 2005 election, have trained 6,000 Iraqi electoral workers (often at workshops in Jordan), and are working on voting by Iraqi expatriates abroad.
	www.tcf.org /4L/4LMain.asp?SubjectID=4&ArticleID=835 (885 words)

	Why Iraq and Vietnam have nothing whatsoever in common
		Vietnam as a state had not invaded any neighbor (even if it did infringe the neutrality of Cambodia) and did not do so until after the withdrawal of the United States when, with at least some claim to self-defense, it overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime.
		Vietnam had not languished under international sanctions for its brazen contempt for international law, nor for its building or acquisition, let alone its use of, weapons of mass destruction.
		Vietnam had never attempted, in whole or in part, to commit genocide, as was the case with the documented “Anfal” campaign waged by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds.
	www.guerrillanews.com /headlines/headline.php?id=996 (1618 words)

	Vietnam War Is A Study In US Crimes
		The reason for the seemingly strange strategy is simple: Putting forward the idea that we lost obscures both the real reason we fought the war and diverts attention from U.S. crimes during the war.
		While it is true that we did not achieve total conquest of South Vietnam, 25 years later the nature of the U.S. victory is clear.
		Vietnam, still recovering from the massive destruction caused by the United States attack, is forced to accept -- by economic pressure not bombs -- its place in the international economic order run out of Washington and New York.
	www.commondreams.org /views/050300-102.htm (730 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Vietnam Vote
		The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here.
		A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam.
		That was the figure in the election in September for the Constitutional Assembly.
	www.snopes.com /politics/ballot/vietnam.asp (661 words)

	Politics of Vietnam Summary
		The Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam opened on April 18, 2006 and concluded on April 25, 2006 was attended by 1,176 delegates.
		At the last elections, 19 may 2002, only the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, a front of the Communist Party of Vietnam, mass organizations and affiliated, and some non-partisans were allowed to participate.
		Vietnam is a member of the United Nations, La Francophonie, ASEAN, and APEC, and applied for membership to the World Trade Organization in 2001.
	www.bookrags.com /Politics_of_Vietnam (1228 words)

	Free Frank Warner: To Vietnam dictator Phan Van Khai on your visit to U.S.: It’s time to fulfill your written promise ...
		Phan Van Khai, Vietnam’s prime minister, is scheduled on Tuesday, June 21, to be the first dictator of Vietnam to meet with a president of the United States.
		North Vietnam was betrayed by Ho when he imported a foreign ideology of repression and then denied the Vietnamese one day of the "life, liberty and happiness" he talked about in 1945.
		Vietnam was betrayed by the U.S when they took away our last chance to be an ally and instead started supporting the French who earlier took away our last chance to be a democracy by refusing to accept Vietnam as an autonomous state inside the French Union.
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	Robert Buzzanco: Remembering Vietnam \| US elections 2004 \| Guardian Unlimited
		That same dynamic is at play today: a significant number of high-ranking US military officials warned against war in Iraq and have continued to criticise the Bush administration's efforts there, putting the president in the anomalous position of offering pro-military rhetoric while ignoring the counsel of his armed forces.
		So, to attack Kerry today for the most noble act of his political life - opposing the Vietnam war - is self-serving and hypocritical, and part of a larger agenda to use Vietnam to justify further interventions.
		The more that soldiers and veterans, like Kerry, are attacked and the Vietnam war mythologised, the more likely it is that we will fail to understand the meaning and impact of the current war in Iraq.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1179306,00.html (752 words)

	How Many Elections Has Vietnam Played a Role in?
		Thereafter it was a central issue in the elections of 1968, 1972, 1988, 1992, and 2004.
		Through the process of "Vietnamization," Nixon was gradually transferring the burden of the war to the South Vietnamese.
		Vietnam played a minor role in the election, but questions about George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard during the height of the Vietnam War damaged the Republican's credibility.
	hnn.us /articles/7729.html (2593 words)

	Vietnam Review \| Homepage \|
		According to Father Joseph, from the Episcopal Council of the Saigon diocese, âdiplomatic relations between the Vatican and Vietnam must be carefully considered by the Bishopsâ Council of Vietnam and the Vatican, and by the Holy See and the government.
		Vietnam claims that they have put an end to human rights abuses, but now the whole world can see that their reforms were just for show," Smith said.
		Friday, March 30th in Vietnam, dissident Catholic priest Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly was sentenced to eight years imprisonment after a court found him guilty of "extremely serious violations against national security" and "having distributed materials intended to undermine the government".
	www.vietnamreview.com /english (1784 words)

	Workers World Feb. 10, 2005: Iraqis want their country back
		The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment...
		The election itself was a massive demo nstration of the brutal occupation of 150,000 U.S. troops.
		And while he may have agreed to collaborate in the elections for opportunistic purposes, the fact is that the masses are expecting him to press for an end to the occupation.
	www.workers.org /world/2005/iraq0210.php (1735 words)

	CACC NEWSLETTER
		The truth is that free elections have not been possible because of the communist control of North Vietnam.
		A genuine free election would require that this opposition party could use all the means of communication and promote its candidates and know it was safe from communist reprisals.
		The communist opposition to free elections in South Vietnam reveals clearly that their claim to the support of the majority of the people of South Vietnam is false.
	www.schwarzreport.org /Newsletters/1966/march7,66.htm (3175 words)

	Vietnam War Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When the war ended, the country was temporarily split into two regions, but the peace agreement stipulated reunification and free elections in two years.
		In an attempt to keep a unified Vietnam from elected communist rule, the United States supported a noncommunist government in South Vietnam.
		In August 1964, North Vietnam was accused of attacking two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, and Congress authorized President Johnson to send more troops into Vietnam.
	chd.gse.gmu.edu /immersion/portfolios/achen5/edit732CLE/vietnam/index.shtml (315 words)

	NSW HSC ONLINE - Modern History
		Most of Vietnam is mountainous, with a long forested chain of mountains running down the centre and western side.
		The first, between the Vietnamese and the French colonial power, is outside the scope of the HSC Course, although some students may have studied it as part of their Preliminary Course in Year 11.
		Elections were to be held in the following year with the aim of unifying Vietnam.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /modern_history/international_studies/indochina/indo_viet/page13.htm (2217 words)

	Elections in Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vietnam ( Vietnamese : Việt Nam) is a country in South East Asia.
		Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 7 and on civil rights with a 6, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free).
		At the last elections, 19 may 2002, only the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, a front of the communist Dang Cong San Viêt Nam, mass organizations and affiliated, and some non-partisans were allowed to participate.
	www.electionworld.org /vietnam.htm (273 words)

	AxisofLogic/ The 2004 Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He was a young man who came back, had seen a lot in Vietnam, wanted this country to end that war and came back worked very hard to bring that war to an end," Meehan said.
		Are you proud of the your record of killing in Vietnam...
		This past weekend, Kerry said that his use of the word "atrocity" in a 1971 interview was "inappropriate," and he added that he never intended to cast a negative light on the sailors with whom he served.
	www.axisoflogic.com /artman/publish/article_6801.shtml (1346 words)

	The Case for Permanent Normal Trading Relations with Vietnam
		Vietnam will now work to finalize a multilateral draft Protocol of Accession that must be approved by the WTO General Council before it can become a WTO member.
		Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia, and the U.S. is Vietnam’s largest investor, as well as a major trading partner.
		Vietnam will have to operate according to international rules of trade or be subject to action under the WTO dispute settlement process.
	www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1152.cfm (1003 words)

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