We now better understand the weight behind the words Viet Cong. While we don’t take any concerns about the name lightly, we feel it is important to let you know that we never meant to trivialize the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cong Caphe is a large Vietnamese café chain. Its trademark is a khaki-green exterior and waiters and waitresses in Viet Cong ...

After more than a year of completely justified public condemnation, the band Viet Cong has finally changed their horribly offensive name. Going forward, they will be known as Preoccupations, as ...

At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...

Viet Cong](http://pitchfork.com/artists/32165-viet-cong/) have released a statement regarding the recent controversy over their band name. "We never intended for our ...

Viet Cong were set to perform at the Oberlin College venue Dionysus Disco on March 14. However, the promoter has canceled the show because of the band's name. In a statement shared on the venue's ...

Akihiko Okamura is a courageous, persistent Japanese photographer who set out last April to see what the war in Viet Nam is like from the Communist side. Armed with six cameras, 182 rolls of film and ...

Calgary post-punk quartet Viet Cong are a really good band with a really stupid name. Back in March, a concert promoter at Oberlin College cancelled a Viet Cong show that he had booked due to their ...

SAIGON, Jan. 31, 1968 (UPI)-Allied aircraft dive-bombed and strafed Viet Cong positions on the edge of Saigon today as the guerrillas continued to fight after raids on the U.S. Embassy, the Tan Son ...

Stefan Fatsis told a version of this story on this week’s edition of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen. An adapted transcript of the audio recording is below, and you can listen to Fatsis’ ...