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N.L.F.

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NLF British  

abbreviation

  1. National Liberation Front

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He said Viet Cong sympathizers had been encouraged by the N.L.F. to vote for him, then he denied that.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though President Reagan personally addressed the N.L.F. at a special conference in January to demonstrate his sympathy, the Administration's stated policy is to seek the return of any missing U.S. servicemen through diplomatic pressure.

From Time Magazine Archive

This segment of the N.L.F. proposal seems to go part way toward satisfying the U.S. policy of separating the purely military side of a settlement from the political aspects of the final agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, some form of recognition of the N.L.F. will have to be granted if the talks are to succeed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saigon, in turn, insisted on separate representation for the South Vietnamese delegation, and insisted that the N.L.F. "traitors" be kept away.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, the “South Vietnamese” who fought against the Americans were those who joined the NLF.

From Slate Apr. 30, 2025

Phoenix’s Combined Intelligence Center in Saigon fed thousands of names into an IBM 1401 computer, along with their locations and their alleged roles in the NLF.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2024

Popularly known as the Viet Cong, the NLF returned to the South to organize peasants and begin an insurgency against the government of South Vietnam and the United States.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

For a while she called them NLF: new life-form.

From National Geographic Jan. 14, 2021

North Vietnamese and NLF forces and supply routes.

From Textbooks Dec. 30, 2014

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