Word: baclieu
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...Baclieu, near the South China Sea, McNamara strolled dusty streets, shaking hands and tousling children's hair, while Khanh conferred respectfully with town elders and coddled a baby. "We would make a good team," Khanh cracked to McNamara at one point. When the pair were airlifted by helicopter into Hoa Hao, a thatch-roofed village near the Cambodian border and seat of the important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior...
...earnest little Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...
...under way, followed by a motorcade of 19 sound trucks, blaring the sponsors' commercials, and a traveling variety show, to while away the time between laps. The first day's lap was uneventful. On the second day, as the race wound on through Communist-infested territory to Baclieu, Vietnamese troops stood at the ready every 100 yards along the route. Cambodian Champion Soun (he has no other name) and a Saigon policeman named Ngo Than Liem were racing well ahead of the field as they passed the town of Cantho...
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