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Word: cao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government is distinctly less so. Washington does not officially recognize the regime in Hanoi, and the Treasury Department enforces rules that hobble travelers and prevent tour operators from advertising. Members of the Vietnamese community in the U.S. may feel further discouraged from making a visit: supporters of Nguyen Cao Ky, former Vice President of South Viet Nam now in exile in California, insist that a trip to the homeland abets the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Welcome Back to Viet Nam | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

...will leave him high and dry. Even if the government seizes the Manhattan properties that earns him an estimated $75 million this year, Marcos has plenty of cash stashed away in untouchable Swiss bank accounts. So it's unlikely that he'll end up like Nguyen Cao Ky, another despot America once supported. The flamboyant Prime Minister of South Vietman during the glory years of 1965-67, now owns and operates a liquor store in California...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Money for Nothing, Trips for Free | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...lack of individual power to do good in Congress is the price we pay for our fragmented system. It's well worth the cost because it also prevents individuals from abusing authority. Second, Mr. Moses completely ignores the real reason for the ruling--the enforcement mechanism (of OMB and CAO mandatory cuts) puts direct executive power in the legislative branch through the CAO. This decision hardly makes the law useless. A simple revision transferring responsibility solely to the OMB (in the executive branch) would snuff out this objection...

Author: By Kris Kobach, | Title: Missing the Point on Gramm-Rudman | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...NGUYEN CAO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: New Roles for an Old Cast | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders by young women posing as the mothers of sleeping babies. And a Vietnamese gang member testified that the head of his crime network was none other than Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former Premier and air force boss during the U.S. involvement in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triads and the Yakuza | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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