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  Linh, Nguyen Van. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In 1968 he led North Vietnam’s Tet offensive, a campaign that, though militarily unsuccessful, marked the beginning of the end for South Vietnam and for American involvement in the war.
Although Linh lost power during the 1980s due to his opposition to Hanoi’s policy toward the South, he became the leader of the Vietnamese Communist party in 1986.
Linh maintained party supremacy in the political sphere, but he revitalized Vietnam’s economy by lessening state control and introducing elements of a free market system.
www.bartleby.com /65/li/LinhNguye.html   (195 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Vietnam / Appendix B
Linh's reappointment in 1985, when he was ranked sixteenth, may have resulted from the intercession of then-party general secretary Le Duan and had the effect of strengthening the reform contingent of the VCP's leadership.
Nguyen Duc Tam, previously ranked thirteenth on the Political Bureau, was promoted in 1986 to seventh despite his position as head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, which was the target of heavy criticism at the Sixth National Party Congress.
Nguyen Quyet, a lieutenant general in PAVN in 1986, was appointed to full membership on the Central Committee at the Fourth National Party Congress in 1976 and reappointed in 1982 and 1986.
memory.loc.gov /frd/cs/vietnam/vn_appnb.html   (3948 words)

  
 Ngo Van Xuyet: 'Moscow Trial' in Ho Chi Minh's Movement
The Stalinist Minister of the Interior, Nguy Van Tao, sent soldiers to bring to their senses with bursts of machine gun fire the peasants of Go-den, as well as the peasants of the Plain of Reeds, who had themselves expropriated the landlords.
According to this statement, Nguyen Van Linh had confessed to having been an agent of the French Deuxieme Bureau, and to having received 31,000 piastres from Bazin, the Security Commissioner, for use against the ‘resistance’ movement.
Nguyen Van Linh’s wife escaped from her torturers in the middle of a battle between them and the French troops.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol3/no2/mostrial.html   (1246 words)

  
 Vietnam the Final Battle
Nguyen The Khan and other residents of the old quarter had marched on the City Hall to complain about them and the corruption that often smoothed the way for planning permission.
Linh saw himself as a "pragmatist"; he had been dropped from the Politburo because of his opposition to the rapid "socialization" of the south in the late 1970s.
One of the survivors was Professor Nguyen Van Xang, a stooped man who could be Ho Chi Minhs brother and whose office is dominated by a picture of the rubble it was.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /New_World_Order/Vietnam_FinalBattle.html   (6955 words)

  
 VietNam News
Late Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh was remembered as a firm, creative leader who led the Party, the army and the people in successfully implementing resolutions that introduced Doi moi at the landmark Sixth Party National Congress 19 years ago.
Linh, who died in 1998 aged 83, was elected General Secretary at the Sixth National Congress in 1986, and said after taking office: "We have to look directly at the truth and recognise that our subjective shortcomings are serious and have existed for a long time.
Linh’s NVL articles gave the mass media new wind to expose corruption.
vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn /showarticle.php?num=02POL300605   (554 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: History of Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Emperor Tu Duc was the 4th Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam and reigned from 1847-1883.
In 1986 Vietnam, under a new leader Nguyen Van Linh, abandoned its attempt to maintain a purely planned economy.
Tay Nguyen, translated as Central Highlands is one of the regions of Vietnam.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Vietnam   (11402 words)

  
 Loyal Opposition: The Rise of Vietnamese Dissidents
Duong Thu Huong is an internationally acclaimed novelist, who was labeled by General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh as the "dissident whore" after publication of her second novel, Paradise of the Blind, for which she was expelled from the party and later arrested.
Nguyen Thanh Giang, a prominent intellectual and geologist, gained notoriety for his attempts to run for a seat in the National Assembly as an independent candidate.
Linh reversed himself, ordering writers to stop writing "only about negative phenomenon." Pre-revolutionary works were once again banned, and what little freedoms the press had earned in 1987-1988 were restrained.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~asiactr/haq/200002/0002a006.htm   (5343 words)

  
 Moïse's Bibliography: Important Communist Leaders
Chu Van Tan was a Nung who became a Viet Minh general, and was a member of the Communist Party Central Committee from 1945 to 1976.
Ho Chi Minh and Nguyen Van Linh, Di chuc cua chu tich Ho Chi Minh (The testament of Chairman Ho Chi Minh).
Hoang Van Thai, Cuoc tien cong chien luoc Dong Xuan, 1954-1954.
www.clemson.edu /caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/commlead.html   (2550 words)

  
 Nguyen Van Thinh --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The novelist and poet Jacob van Lennep was the leading man of letters in The Netherlands in the mid-19th century.
The first president born as a United States citizen was Martin Van Buren, who was the eighth president of the United States and one of the founders of the Democratic party.
Biographical sketch of Vincent Willem van Gogh, considered as the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, supplemented with a collection of his paintings.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055665?tocId=9055665   (736 words)

  
 FOR DAO DUY TUNG
Linh, again, ran from the assignment with the excuse of a recent marriage to his wife, Bay Hue.
On September 21, 1948, Le Van Sy, Secretary of the City Party Command lost his life while Nguyen Van Linh's head was still resting on his wife's butt enjoying his honeymoon.
Nguyen Van Linh should have unmasked the murderer in Cambodia that he knows very well: Le Duc Anh, after being made supreme commander of the Cambodian front, massacred numerous members of the Khmer communist party.
www.fva.org /press/comnt01.htm   (2317 words)

  
 Amnesty International : Father Nguyen Van Ly, Prisoner of Conscience
On 17 May 2001, Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly was arrested at An Truyen church, Phu An commune, in central Thua Thien-Hue province, for his alleged ''failure to abide by the decisions on his probation issued by authorized State agencies,'' according to the official Viet Nam News Agency (VNA).
Father Nguyen Van Ly ended his declaration by insisting that there could be no dialogue until his conditions were met, and that he was prepared to be martyred for his faith.
Father Nguyen Van Ly is only one of many people in Viet Nam whose religious beliefs, political convictions and conscience have led to severe curtailment of their fundamental rights and freedoms.
www.fva.org /200107/story02.htm   (4282 words)

  
 Nguyen Van Linh Biography / Biography of Nguyen Van Linh Biography
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Nguyen Van Linh (1914-1998) was one of the most clandestine figures in the entire hierarchy of the Vietnamese Communist Party, itself famed for its clandestine character.
During the first 35 years of his career of service to the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nguyen Van Linh lived and operated in the hostile political environment of South Vietnam.
www.bookrags.com /biography-nguyen-van-linh   (196 words)

  
 MONTH IN REVIEW
Nguyen Ngoc Danh in France were interviewed by the Agence France-Presse and the Economist on the state of the Internet and other underground networks of information in Vietnam.
Nguyen Ngoc Danh mentioned the rising recognition of an underground writer with the penname of Nguoi Saigon (A Saigonese).
Nguyen Ho, a prominent dissident, issued a letter through his underground distribution calling all conscientious Party members to show support for Kiet.
www.fva.org /0796/review.htm   (931 words)

  
 TAM TIEN NGUYEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born and raised in Saigon, Tam Tien Nguyen immigrated to the U.S. in 1978.
His influence in photography came from his father Nguyen Huy Truc who is one of the pioneers in the Vietnamese photography industry along with many other famous and legendary Vietnamese photographers such as : Nguyen Manh Dan, Nguyen Cao Dam, Tran Cao Linh, Nguyen Van Thong, Pham Van Mui.....
Photography still remains a hobby to Tam Nguyen as he regularly returns to Vietnam to travel throughout the country and to photograph its beauties.
www.nguyentientam.com /autobio.html   (174 words)

  
 VIETNAM, NEWS ANALYSIS, APRIL 3, 1999
When Linh climbed to the top post in the regime, he managed to have Oanh elected to the Communist National Assembly, serving the regime as an official economic advisor to the Hanoi government.
Nguyen Xuan Oanh is the most competent observer on the economy in Vietnam as he was contributing a large part in the "renovation" or so-called economic "restructure" and establishing regulations for foreign investment in the mid-1980's.
Meanwhile, Hanoi Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, on his trips visiting Japan and Australia this week, has admitted that his government does not expect to attain 5 to 6 percent growth in 1999 as planned.
www.vietquoc.com /apr8-99.htm   (738 words)

  
 Polictics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Mr Linh was an excellent pupil of the late President Ho Chi Minh, a prestigious leader of the Vietnamese Party and people and a reliable partner of international friends.
The late Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh, whose real name is Nguyen Duc Cuc, was born on July 1, 1915 in Hanoi.
PM Phan Van Khai and his entourage is scheduled to leave Quebec for Toronto city in the evening.
www.vov.org.vn /2005_06_30/english/polictics1.htm   (6822 words)

  
 Thang Bom - Nguyen van Thanh
Thoâng thöôøng, trong caùc laøng maïc Vieät Nam, tuy duø khoâng ñaûm nhaän nhöõng chöùc vuï chính thöùc, Phuù OÂng vaãn luoân luoân coù chöùc vò, trong nhöõng nôi coâng coïng, nhö ñình, chuøa, laêng, mieáu, hoaëc treân caùc con ñöôøng caùi quan, nôi qua laïi cuûa moïi ngöôøi.
Vaãn giaøu coù vaø ñöôïc toân troïng, trong phöôøng khoùm.
Nhöng chuùng ta cuõng coù khaû naêng cho laïi nhöõng quaø taëng taâm linh, nhöõng nuï cöôøi an laïc, nhöõng voøng tay thaân maät ñoùn tieáp, nhöõng quang caûnh cuûa moät Ñaát Nöôùc Thanh Bình.
www.vovinam-via.org /nvthanh19.htm   (2831 words)

  
 www.bewly.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Van Gundy said that he and team president Pat Riley met for 3 1/2 hours on Sunday, during which Van Gundy was assured that ``I will be coaching the Miami Heat this coming season.'' But Van Gundy acknowledged on a call with Heat beat writers Monday that he was a bit unsettled by rumors suggesting...
Nguyen Van Chinh, 45, was found guilty of illegally trafficking 1050 grams of heroin and was sentenced to die by firing squad.
Nguyen Van Minh said the remains are believed to belong to 108 communist commandos killed during an attack on an American garrison during the Tet Offensive in February 1968.
www.bewly.com /?keyword=nguyen%20van   (7871 words)

  
 Moïse's Bibliography: The Communist Viewpoint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The last is the story of Tran Van Thai, a worker on a state farm in the highlands.
If Nguyen Khac Vien was not the editor of the series from its beginning, he soon became the editor.
Nguyen Thi Thap, Tu dat Tien giang (From the land of Tien giang).
hubcap.clemson.edu /~eemoise/commview.html   (5631 words)

  
 Nguyen Van Linh
Regionalism and the nature of Nguyen rule in seventeenth-century Dang Trong (Cochinchina).
The Nguyen kingdom in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Vietnamese Economist Nguyen Xuan Oanh Dies at 82.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0907230.html   (293 words)

  
 BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Former Vietnamese leader dies
Officials in Vietnam say the former Communist Party chief, Nguyen Van Linh, has died at the age of eighty-two.
Linh was dropped from the Politburo six years later, but was soon reinstated, becoming party general secretary in nineteen-eighty-six.
Linh stepped down as General Secretary of the Party about seven years ago.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/84145.stm   (119 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nguyen Van Thieu
Thieu, Nguyen Van (1923-2001), president of South Vietnam (1967-1975).
He was born in Ninh Thuan and educated in a Roman Catholic secondary school...
The withdrawal ended a military involvement that had begun nearly 11 years earlier, when the Vietnamese army invaded its neighbor and ousted the brutal Khmer Rouge regime that had killed more than a million...
ca.encarta.msn.com /Nguyen_Van_Thieu.html   (162 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- An Interview with Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Linh -- Sep. 21, 1987   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Nguyen Van Linh is, in a sense, the Mikhail Gorbachev of Viet Nam.
Named last December to replace Truong Chinh as General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, the 72-year-old economist has initiated a series of broad economic reforms, while encouraging citizens to voice their complaints and offer suggestions for change.
Unlike the aging guard that led the wars against France and the U.S., then allowed the country to stagnate in poverty, Linh plans to raise his country's standard of living by streamlining the bureaucracy, cracking down on corruption and expanding trade with the West.
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,965547,00.html   (175 words)

  
 SPR_03-0522
On March 18, 2003, a Vietnamese security officer, Nguyen Van Linh, in search of H’Nui’s husband invaded her house and stationed himself there.
While he was waiting for H’Nui’s husband to return home so that he could arrest him, Nguyen Van Linh raped H’Nui with a gun pointed to her head.
H’Nui was born in 1962, from the village of Buon Krang, district of Krong Ana, province of Daklak.
www.montagnard-foundation.org /SPR_03-0522.htm   (1348 words)

  
 Hanoi's hasty pudding
Although Communist party boss Nguyen Van Linh continues to insist that Marxism-Leninism is "the intellectual quintessence of mankind," Vietnam today is a hotbed of primitive capitalism.
Savvy street vendors like 34-year-old Nguyen Mai Huong, who started out selling clothes and moved upmarket to televisions and refrigerators, are now considering switching to motorbikes.
Nguyen van Duc pours midmorning French champagne in his Japanese-designed office in Saigon as he describes his international network of 26 joint-venture trading companies and local projects, including a shipping company, a brewery, a five-star floating hotel, a golf course and an airline.
www.macfarquhar.com /USNews/hanoi.htm   (2361 words)

  
 Nation pays its tribute to late Party leader Nguyen Van Linh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Memorial for the late General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh in his homeland in Hung Yen Province.
He called Linh a prestigious leader of the Party, a distinguished student of Ho Chi Minh and a creative, consistent, faithful and simple communist.
It was with Linh at the helm that the Politburo and Central Standing Committee conceived doi moi (renewal) besides making important achievements in political, economic, social and defence fields, he said.
www.vietnamnews.com.vn /2004-09/18/Stories/02.htm   (257 words)

  
 Source for Nguyen Huy Thiep v. Hoi Nha Van Controversy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Editor-in-chief Vien Linh's vision glances back to Vietnamese history while looking around at the present, and is unambiguously rooted in the literary culture of the Republic of Viet Nam, 1954-1975.
Thiep is of course known as one of the authors who responded to Nguyen Van Linh's call to intellectuals to participate in a rebirth of VN society.
If talent there follows a normal curve, then fifty to eighty percent of the authors and their work are going to fall in the middle range.
www.lib.washington.edu /Southeastasia/vsg/elist_2004/nguyenHthiep.html   (869 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Nguyen Van Linh (Southeast Asia History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Nguyen Van Linh (Southeast Asia History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Nguyen Van Linh 1915–98, Vietnamese political leader, b.
As a young man he was active in organizing Vietnam's Communist party and was twice jailed (1931–36; 1941–45) for his political activities.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LinhNguye.html   (266 words)

  
 Duong Thu Huong /Banned Books
The novel sold 60,000 copies before then Party Secretary Nguyen Van Linh publicly denounced Duong Thu Huong as "a whore" (con di cua dang) and issued a second, written banning order that her work be withdrawn from circulation.
The fact that one or two short stories she wrote 20 years ago appeared in 1997 in sanitized, official "women writers" short story collections should be seen for what it is - just another move in the regime's pathetic campaign of disinformation rather than any acceptance of her as a writer.
I have the impression that some of Nguyen Huy Thiep's writings, such as The General Retires, were banned at one time in Vietnam but I don't know if this is still true.
www.lib.washington.edu /southeastasia/vsg/elist_2002/bannings.htm   (2050 words)

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