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Word: bong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prominent youth leader, Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Van Bong, drove last week along a highway north of Saigon. His car was riddled and set afire by a fusillade from a Communist ambush. Each month, from 250 to 300 government officials and supporters are brutally murdered by Red guerrillas. "It's like trying to swat mosquitoes," grumbled a soldier. "While you're hitting one, you're being bitten by another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Problem of One Man | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...party's reliance on ballot stuffing and terrorism (TIME, March 21 et seq.) took on unprecedented proportions. Masan has long been a stronghold of opposition to Rhee's Liberals. In 1956 the people of Masan gave Rhee only half as many votes as Progressive Party Candidate Cho Bong Am (later hanged by Rhee's police for treason). Masan's voters flatly refused to believe that this time they had voted Liberal by nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Blood & Bayonets | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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