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Word: cao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived democracy in post-Czarist Russia, eventually found a home here after his ouster by the Soviets. So did Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, South Korean Strongman Syngman Rhee, Cambodia's Marshal Lon Nol and Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista. South Viet Nam's former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, a resident of California, will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship next spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Old Rules Don't Apply | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...troops were not embracing. At dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, Chinese forces, massed more than 300,000 strong north of Viet Nam in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces, loosed a massive artillery barrage on key border positions. Hardest hit were Vietnamese concentrations around the cities of Lao Cai, Muong Khuong, Cao Bang, Lang Son and Mong Cai. The People's Liberation Army, untested in major formation warfare since it crossed the Yalu River in October 1950 to surprise and rout the U.N. forces in Korea, stormed across the border at 26 different points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Nguyen Cao Ky, former Premier of South Viet Nam, who now owns a liquor store in Huntington Beach, Calif: "I am not Americanized yet. I do not wash dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...ingredient, but it would be sold as an over-the-counter drug in containers warning that it could cause cancer"). He cannot fathom American Puritanism but admires the national trait of altruism. He cherishes our chronic forgetfulness and blithering unawareness of history (talkshow gabber to ex-Premier Cao Ky of South Viet Nam, who now runs a liquor store in California: "We still have a minute left. Could you tell us what went wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Countless Blessings | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...years afterward, Cao's countrymen traded and established settlements near the river's mouth. But they did not go too far inland; 100 miles upstream lay a series of 32 cataracts now known as Livingstone Falls. A stretch of white water, appropriately named the Cauldron of Hell, stopped early explorers as effectively as if it were the edge of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beats from the Heart of Darkness | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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