Word: cao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call "the river that swallows all rivers." The result is an absorbing, fast-paced book that deserves to stand beside Alan Moorehead's White Nile and Blue Nile. Unlike the Nile, the Congo held no fascination for Europeans. It was discovered almost by accident by the Portuguese mariner Diogo Cao, who sailed into its mouth in 1482 while searching for, among other things, the kingdom of Prester John, whose realm had been the object of crusades for centuries...
...like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was on a Midwestern show panel when the host finally turned to him and, asking about the war in Viet Nam, said: "We still have a minute left. Could you tell us what went wrong...
Remember Nguyen Cao Ky? He of the purple ascot and the praises for Adolf Hitler? The former South Vietnamese Premier, who fled to the U.S. last May, is working the college lecture circuit these days. His standard lecture, delivered last week at the University of Florida, includes a proposal that the U.S. send troops to Viet Nam to protect refugees who want to return home. The students greeted Ky's talk with boos, jeers and a sign that said: OUT OF VIET NAM FOREVER. When it came to question time, the first questioner asked about Ky's rumored...
...camp had one incongruous celebrity: former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who was billeted in a tent with 15 other refugees. Still sporting his familiar lavender ascot and displaying a forlorn jauntiness, Ky stood in long chow lines with the others, complained about the cold nights, and asked visiting reporters for warm underwear. He spoke vaguely of seeking an American sponsor to set him up as a farmer "in Arkansas or San Antonio," or of finding a new life as a cab driver. "For us," he said, "the only hope is that we shall return. When Hitler occupied Europe, people like...
Apart from all their other problems -finding work, worrying about family left behind-most of the Vietnamese newcomers were somewhat dazedly trying to master their culture shock. As one refugee at Fort Chaffee said: "Conditions are so strange here." Cao Huynh, a 23-year-old student, has just settled in lower Manhattan with six younger brothers and sisters. He is happy at the welcome he received. But he says wistfully: "Viet Nam is still Viet Nam. I still love that country, and I have to go back -if the Communists flee away...