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Word: borsetti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...money? "Oh," said the little priest airily, "our good Lord helps me." This was not quite the whole truth, the crestfallen parishioners of Giadinh learned last week. Rounded up in a Saigon police court along with four other members of an auto-stealing gang, one Roberto Borsetti explained that Father Jacques had financed the new parish school by selling stolen cars. The cars, 17 in all, were snatched by Borsetti's crooks at night, driven into a palm-thatched workshop in the churchyard, repainted and turned over, complete with forged license plates and bills of sale, to Father Jacques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Helping Hand | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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